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Banking and finance are way out of my area of experience, but physical
dangers aside, I would be very surprised if there are not some regulatory
requirements in SOX or 31 CFR that cover security requirements for systems
used in US financial transactions, and if your systems are handling overseas
transfers, there would be all the countries on the other end of the wire
that may have their own regs, such as the UK's Data Protection Act. Not
every product regulatory certification is about physical injury.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:52 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin <
Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> I don't know if you have to be a Complete Idiot to
> work around the safeguards, but you certainly have
> to act in a manner counter to the recommendations
> and instructions in the docs.
>
> And anyway, none of that has anything to do with
> physical hazards from the physical use or misuse
> of our products. Standing barefoot in a big puddle
> in your office or server room, while poking a metal
> object (or moist body part) into crevices on our
> product is not an approved use. If you are in that
> situation, you have plenty of pre-existing problems
> at the time your bits finally get fried. If your video
> surveillance is still working, it'll show that you
> were being extra-dumb. If it's not working, then
> there'll be no way to prove that -immediately
> pre-mortem - you were probing our equipment rather
> than the Dell servers in the next rack shelf.
>
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