-=> On 18 Oct 99  06:36:30, Rodrigo Cesar Banhara wrote to Scott Jones <=-


 SJ> I tend to collect stuff like that for some unknown reason.  I was also
 SJ> looking into the possibility of using it as a remote-admin tool with
 SJ> my mother-in-law's Win machine, since I'm the pseudo-tech
 SJ> support/sysadmin person for the business she and my wife run.

 RCB> I tend to collect things, too... texts, very much texts... :)
 RCB> but not sources, why I dont have a compiler neither... :-(

Oh, I *do* have the emx compiler here, should I ever feel the
masochistic urge to learn how to program.  So far, all I've done with
it, though, is to compile the sample programs included with it to make
sure I had it set up correctly.

 SJ> The same possibilities it has in the Win world.  I see it as simply

 RCB> Bad thing... I fear that...

It's no worse than any other remote tool.  IMO, most of the fear
surrounding BO is fueled by the media.  Why?  BO does the same thing any
number of high-priced remote admin tools do.  The only difference is
that it wasn't produced by Network Associates and given a three- or
four-figure price tag.  Instead, it was written by Cult of the Dead Cow
and released under the GPL, so that any half-witted script kiddie can
get his hands on it.

 SJ> another tool that can be used for either good or bad purposes, just
 SJ> like any other.

 RCB> Ya, but it is need anyone at least average skilled, right? :)

It depends.  I would have said so with the original release of BO, but
BO2K now has a nice, pretty point and drool interface that even the
dimmest of users can almost understand, much like the rest of Windows.

 RCB> Exist many folks with bad intentions? (in the OS2 world, sure)

People with bad intentions exist everywhere.

                              Scott Jones
                        (sjones@crosswinds.net)


... Stupidity has a certain charm.  Ignorance does not. -Frank Zappa
 
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