RE: More BCP: revenge of RS232 and CLIs

[George Jones <gmj@pobox.com>]

> i fail to see how the baud rate, parity, color of cable, ...
> affect security.  can we please get some focus here?

The security issue is the need for a guarenteed-to-work path
for config and management, even if the net, interfaces, routing
and OS are screwed up.  The BCP implementation would appear
to be RS232 with a well understood set of default prameters.
I think I made a mistake by listing the technology (RS232)
in the requirement instead of generalizing and putting it
in the example.  Will cahnge.

---George