meo@Dixie.Com (Miles ONeal) (03/15/91)
John F Haugh II writes: >Well, I think it is very important to expose fraud whereever it >is found. Part of the concept behind the TCSEC and the NCSC is >that we trust the NCSC to properly apply the criteria described >in the TCSEC so that the criteria have some meaning. What >companies such as SecureWare are doing is to take a meaningful >collection of criteria and announce, without proof, that they >adhere to these well defined criteria. Naive users do not >fully understand what the difference between a "rated" and an >"unrated" system are - there are very real differences and >SecureWare is clouding them up. Notice how quiet SecureWare is? >They =are= on the net, and yet they do not get engaged in this >discussion because their behavior is =unethical=. Mr Haugh: Your postings are getting into the are of slander and libel. They are also, at least in part, simply incorrect. 1) SecureWare's being quiet about this SecureWare is *not* "on the net", per se. SecureWare has email via emory and uunet, and has sometimes ftp access. SecureWare does NOT have a news feed, and was generally unaware of this discussion until I stumbled across it (in alt.sources.d, where ELSE would I expect it?) and started forwarding it to SecureWare. I have net access by virtue of a paid-for account on a public access system here in Atlanta. I pay for it it myself. One or two other SecureWare employees have net access as students at Georgia Tech. As far as I am aware, that's it. But the company itself certainly has no news access. 2) SecureWare's behavior & ethics In this article at least, you make claims you do not substantiate. Just what is this unethical behavior? One of the things that attracted me to SecureWare was that they seemed far more ethical in many areas than most of the software/systems houses with which I am familiar. I have been there almost a year, and have yet to see evidence to the contrary. Nor am I posting this out of duty or hoping to win brownie points - they don't go in for that sort of bull and neither do I. Ordinarily I would have responded via email, but felt you had gone too far publicly to respond privately. I do not claim to speak for SecureWare on these issues. -Miles O'Neal (S&SSI is my consulting company on the side. It has nothing whatsoever to do with SecureWare, its products, or its markets.)