Re: Apple site

FROM : Philip George
DATE : Mon Dec 23 19:41:35 2002

There are other ways to handle software seeding that would be less
cumbersome for basic logins.

- Philip


On Monday, December 23, 2002, at 06:30  PM, John C. Randolph wrote:

>
> On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 09:42 PM, Philip George wrote:
>

>> Your argument works if our ADC passwords, if leaked, could compromise
>> the system security of the ADC web server, but that isn't the case. 
>> My password does one thing: protect my personal account assets.  If
>> the password gets into the wrong hands, Apple isn't harmed a bit. 
>> Only I will be at a loss.  And since the password only protects me, I
>> should be able to use whatever security policy I deem fit.

>
> What you're failing to recognize that is among those "personal account
> assets" there could be a software seed key, which gives access to
> pre-release software.  There are reasons why Apple requires an NDA for
> access to that software.
>
> -jcr
>
> John C. Randolph    <<email_removed>>  (408) 974-8819
> Sr. Cocoa Software Engineer,
> Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
> http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/index.html
>
> _______________________________________________
> MacOSX-dev mailing list
> <email_removed>
> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-dev
>