14 Jan
2009
14 Jan
'09
1:22 p.m.
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:47:23 EST, William Herrin said:
It's more like one owner in a condominium deciding to "test" the fire alarm without first asking the condo association or letting the other owners know about it ahead of time.
On the other hand, pre-announcing "We will have a fire drill at 8PM Thursday" doesn't do a whole lot to measure the response effectiveness - everybody will start getting their shoes and coats on at 7:55PM. And yes, it applies in the network world as well. When we pre-announce "We will be doing network scans from IP address w.x.y.z", we have a lot of users who will just blindly firewall off that IP rather than fixing their real issue they know the scan will detect...