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To: kas1 who wrote (2378)	2/14/2000 3:36:00 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

>>Security issues are one such thing; it seems that there's an implicit truce among many IT vendors not to bring up any product's security vulnerabilities.<< People in glass houses agreeing not to throw stones. That, and if you claim that your system is bulletproof, every cracker on the planet sets out to prove you wrong. Katherine

To: kas1 who wrote (2378)	2/14/2000 3:53:00 PM
From: Puna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

Yes I appreciate the inquisitive and intelligent posting that goes on this thread, and others in SI. I guess though, I have felt for some time that one of the greatest threats to this entire technical E-conomy that is mushrooming globally, is intense rapidly repeated computer virus and hacker attacks. This past week is a serious example of that and preventing it is so far very difficult. If the threat reaches a more critical level, it will set back not only our share prices, but the world's Internet advancement IMO... E-commerce was slow to catch on until last year largely due to the lack of trust in security of personal information over the Net. It won't take much to bring that caution back. With that said, I am still confidant that all will be well in the months ahead, and there will be tighter security systems in place to slow the hack attacks and viruses... It's all greed you know, I just really like seeing my NTAP and others like ADIC making these new highs!<big grin> Thanks for your reply kas, Puna