Re: Hope conference talk on hacking the AS/400

["Steve Martinson" <SMartinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is probably with a fair amount of risk that I, as a security
practitioner in this programmer-heavy forum, say in response to Jeff's
post:

Programmers coding security-wise?  Isn't that an oxymoron?

> message: 5
> date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:05:51 -0500
> from: "Jeffrey Lee" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: Hope conference talk on hacking the AS/400
>
> I read a document the other day about a guy who "found" this
university owned as/400 and used the default passwords to  > get in. I
think that knowing what hackers do to break into a system and knowing
how yourself, will give you a head up   > when coding security wise.

Best regards,

Steven W. Martinson, CISSP, CISM
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