(keitai-l) Re: Leased line to gateway?

From: Nick May <nick_at_kyushu.com>
Date: 02/14/01
Message-id: <fc.000f76100004ff343b9aca008d29fdb8.4ff35@kyushunet.com>
keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
>I can't speak for all financial institutions, but ANY reduction of
>security risk
>is a good thing, and therefore any reduction of exposure to the Internet
>at
>large is generally safer. SSL on a leased line +  unknown airpacket
>encoding is
>better than SSL over the Internet + unknown airpacket encoding.


There is also the marketing element.

"Look how strong our security is! Leased Line! WAH! How secure our system
is..."

(carefully ignoring the obvious gaping hole....)


Note: Of course I would not suggest that the marketing department of ANY
company on this list would EVER behave in such a way.

nick


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Received on Wed Feb 14 07:34:43 2001