IP: Pushing () cis upenn edu down the slope -- from edupage

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

AIR FORCE THINKS PUSH-PULL TECHNOLOGY TOO RISKY The U.S. Air Force is in
the process of evaluating whether to use or ban numerous products from
PointCast, Netscape, Microsoft, and BackWeb that use "push-pull" technology
to manage information transfer between server and client computers. In
October an Air Force memo declared: "Effective immediately, all
commercially available auto push-pull data gathering applications ... are
to be disabled from all networks. Currently, these technologies introduce
security risks and impact data throughput on our networks than cannot be
tolerated." The companies involved insist their software is secure.
(News.Com 23 Jan 98)