From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 22 Jan 93 17:28:26 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!srctran@ucbvax.Berkeley .EDU (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Guest account at Center for Software Reuse Message-ID: List-Id: >The Center for Software Reuse Operations (CSRO) Customer Assistance >Office (CAO) has disable the guest account due to security issues. This pathetic excuse for shutting down an entire reuse operation reminds of the secrecy crap at the Software Engineering Institute. I was there a few years ago, went to the entrance, and asked to see if I could use the SEI library. The guard at the front desk informed me that no one could walk unescorted throughout the SEI building. I suppose like CSRO that some parts of the SEI building had classified stuff, but with all of the money they have to waste, in both cases, it is pure incompetency to have to completely restrict access to the entire facilities. After all, I can get into my car, drive to Hanscom Air Force Base, and walk completely unescorted into the headquarters of the Electronic Systems Division, which funds all of these efforts, and which has more classified stuff onsite than either CSRO or SEI. In thes cases, control access is less for security and more for incompetence covering. That none of the DoD reuse efforts have managed to figure out or cared to use anonymous ftp and USENET to circulate Ada codes just shows the levels of incompetence attained (given that 1000s of times more C and C++ software is readily available over the Internet). As I have heard too often for middle level DoDer's, "all we have to do is spend our money. What's done with the money is irrelevant as long as it is legal". Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimiztion P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178