Re: www.adahome.com?...

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <00d101c0712a$7123a360$ace7fea9@ix.netcom.com>, "Richard Riehle" <adaworks@earthlink.net> writes:

> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

Please don't send MIME to comp.lang.ada.

> The least he could do is turn over the keys to those of us willing
> to fix his site up, or give up the domain name so some one else can
> rebuild a site in its place.
> 
> The "he" in that sentence, Magnus Kempe, may not be in a position
> to do anything to fix adahome at this time.  This is one of the
> problems with creating a password protected web site with only
> one person knowing the password.

Passwords are irrelevant.  Somewhere there is a physical machine.
Anyone with legal authority could change the content of the machine
(or change the routing of that URL to a different machine).

I realize that at some level of abstraction one might view "password"
as the equivalent of "legal authority", but that is just too loose for
those of us who are security geeks.