From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 21:27:43 -0400
From: Paul D. Robertson proberts@clark.net
Subject: religious wars
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On Fri, 18 Aug 1995, Berry Kercheval wrote:

> Indeed.  THe only time I know that PARC got seriously hacked, the intruders 
> didn't come in through *our* firewall -- they got into Xerox somewhere else 
> and just rode the corporate net over here.
> 
> We keep talking about a firewall between PARC and the rest of Xerox, but 
> managers frown on it for some reason :-)
>

I've been selling it as zoned security, and explaining that the multiple 
zones are to protect in layers.  It's looking like a probably buy-in from
my management.  If I just said "I don't trust other operating units", they'd
probably react like yours.  

Well, back to outer space.... 
>   --berry
> 
> Berry Kercheval :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
> 
> 
> 


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