Echos.....
Ford Pinto......
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 16:24 -0600, Tony Arkles wrote:
> On 11-Dec-06, at 4:17 PM, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> >
> > Security seems to be a secondary concern for too many companies :p
>
>
> Here's a hint about why. Your suggest scheme sounds great from a
> technical point of view. I'm going to ignore the additional
> engineering cost, and just look at a per-unit setup cost. Lets say
> that it takes, on average, 5 minutes to set up the key pairings, and
> assume an installation of 50,000 units:
>
> 50,000 units * 1/12 hours/unit = 4166.7 hours
> 4166.7 hours * $20/hour = $83,333
>
> Assuming that they don't anticipate losing more than $83,000, it
> doesn't really make sense to add that overhead. (I'm not debating
> how safe of a decision this is, just looking at it from a bean
> counter point of view). I think I'm likely shooting low here as
> well, given that Sasktel pays their Tier I tech support roughly $20/
> hr, the actual installers may make a little more than that.
>
> Cheers,
> Tony
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Received on Mon Dec 11 16:28:09 2006
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