While obscurity may stifle AS/400 discussions, I disagree that lack of
security discussion in Mac/Win interop is related to popularity of the
Macintosh platform. It was, however, inaccurate of me to say it was due to
the rift between the communities. It largely is due to the focus on the
consumer market share for Macintosh products (both by Apple and Microsoft)
and the historic tendency of consumers not to lend much thought to computing
security.

With both MS and Apple producing products capable of rather secure computing
(Win2K and OS X respectively) one would hope that secure interoperability
would be readily possible. The migration of Mac OS to a BSD-based platform
only opens the doors more to enhancing interoperability security by
generalizing the issue to Win32/Unix interop. A much greater audience now
stands to benefit, and contribute, to these issues.

This potential, combined with the greater attention given to security by
corporations and consumers of late, will hopefully result in more secure
computing both within a platform and between them.

Time to come down from my soapbox.

Brad Judy

Information Technology Services
University of Colorado at Boulder

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'ken'FTU [mailto:franklin_tech_bulletinsyahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 1:36 PM
> To: Brad Judy
> Cc: focus-mssecurityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: Recent Mac/Win interop threads
>
>
> I think it is overlooked because the Mac platform is not as popluar as
> other platforms. I find the same problem with AS/400 security, not as
> popular, not as much discussion.
>
> 'ken'
>
>
> >
> > I feel Mac/Win interop security is largely overlooked probably
> due to the
> > rift between the Windows and Macintosh communities. There are
> many people
> > working to remedy this situation, but it requires the efforts of both
> > communities.
> >
> > Brad Judy
> >
> > Information Technology Services
> > University of Colorado at Boulder
> >
> >
>
>
>

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