Re: Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for good security

[George Capehart <capegeo () opengroup org>]

On Monday 03 November 2003 06:22 pm, Geoincidents wrote:
> > Apparently the folks at Microsoft aren't there yet . . . would
> > *you* be willing to expose a stored procedure in a SQL Server
> > database as a Web service?  See
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/33718.html.  The inmates
> > are running the loony bin . . .
>
> Of course not, but then isn't that the point, to run this stuff on
> the internet without leaving it "exposed"?

But IMHO, that *is* the point.  If it's on the Internet, it's exposed . 
. . And if a stored procedure is exposed, then the whole system is 
exposed . . . The following URL (may wrap) points to what *Microsoft* 
has to say about Web services security.  Now, imagine what a "secure" 
stored procedure must look like . . .

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwssecur/html/securitywhitepaper.asp

/g

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