RE: system security (was: symbolize roles)

["Jens Reineking" <J -dot- Reineking -at- interkomelectronic -dot- de>]

This chance to learn, to get better is a major factor given for creating passionate users over at
the "Creating Passionate users" blog (http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/).

Some great stuff over there about how to engage users and on how to facilitate learning. Much ss
exciting for writers doing reference style documents.

Jens

<zitiere wer="Bruce Byfield">
>
> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 10:43 -0400, Jason Willebeek-LeMair (jlemair)
> wrote:
>
>> Just because security through obscurity is a bad idea does not mean you
>> have to reveal everything.  You just have to realize that concealing
>> capabilities is not the same as securing them.
>
> Which was exactly my point. I wasn't responding to your original post,
> but to another poster, who seemed to think that mentioning other
> capacities would raise security issues.
>
> Anyway, security aside, what is wrong with letting people know that
> software has capacities that they're not using? Either people won't
> care, or they'll nose around and learn about the other capacities anyway
> in the normal course of their work.
>
> My experience is that trying to conceal functionality is a waste of
> time, but that a few users always appreciate knowing more than they
> strictly need to.
> --
> Bruce Byfield


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