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Holiday Corner
Omaha Steaks Smoked Turkey
1 Smoked Turkey
6 baking apples, cored and 1 1/2 inch
of the skin removed around the top
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
6 Tbsp. butter
Thaw turkey. Preheat oven to 325. Place turkey in a roaster pan. You may cover the turkey for the last half of cooking.
Place the cored apples in a glass baking dish. Pour water in bottom. Combine sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Fill the centers of the apple with the sugar and spices. Place a Tbsp. of butter on each top. Cover. Bake both the turkey and apples for approximately 50-60 minutes.
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Web-Lines Talk Vol. I.3
Computer Security
...Why is it a continuing problem?
by Jean Edson
An Editorial Commentary
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With all the brilliant computer experts around these days,
why is security still a problem? You'd think an expert security
administrator for any computer network would find and fix all the
possible holes in their systems and be done with it once and for all.
Computer experts are trained for software and hardware examination to
find flaws, misuse possibilities, and errors in functions. In college
a computer student on a software development team would be handed a
software program and told specifically:
Find the user errors, the programming
glitches, and try to break
this system down.
Unfortunatly, the writers and/or users of the programs usually don't
like this expert because he can rip holes in the seemingly best programs
and report all the bugs and what is wrong with the running system.
Which means the writers or user must go back and rewrite and reprogram
the software or system to include responses for the breakdowns and errors.
Web-Lines Gong You're Wrong award goes to: MCI/Worldcom in Tulsa,
Oklahoma where a UNIX administrator was contracted and instructed by a
Senior Administrator to upgrade, reveiw, and make security recommendations
for the company's computer networks. He was in the process of analysis
and finding several major holes in the networking system, when the
management of MCI/Worldcom abruptly fired him on December 2nd, 1999
(Merry Christmas - You're Fired!)
for being a "threat to security". The employee had found a
less than secure networking system and MCI/Worldcom was not going to
tollerate anyone who could find such security flaws.
Ignoring security problems by not finding them and not fixing them
will not improve corporate computer security. Companies which
continue to be on the extreme edge of paranoia and refuse to even let
their own security employees find security leaks and holes surely
are part of the continuation of computer security problems. How can
problems be fixed if a company doesn't allow anyone to find problems?
How many other companies are ignoring computer security problems by
not trying to find them? Once again the management of large corporations
has overridden the technology experts and proven themselves to be part
of the problem. It's time for management to get their heads out of the
sand and let the computer security experts do their jobs and until this
happens, security precautions will be minimal, and security will
be a continuing problem.
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Going Home for the Holidays?
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