Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

I'd venture to say that my personal laptop is relatively safe. :-)

On a an IT administered server, no freeking way. :-)

Besides, it generally only a snippet or two anyways, and that's
what a config repository is for...

- ferg

-- Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:05:55 -0000, Fergie said:
> Well, that's kind of scary, in that, I can't tell you how many
> times I've used notepad (sometimes only as a scratchpad, whereas
> the problem would not manifest) to make (for example) firewall
> ACL changes, etc....

Fergie, if you're letting firewall ACLs be stored on a system that you
can use
notepad to edit them, that's already sufficiently scary right there...


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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