RE: A little good news for MF

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[mailto:IBM-MAIN@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:20 PM
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Subject: Re: A little good news for MF


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Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:18 PM
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Subject: Re: A little good news for MF
<SNIP>
ISTM that all the security breaches that seem to make the
printed rags
are on LINUX, UNIX or Windoze boxen. Could it be that they're still
years behind us mainframers in this area? Nah...they're too
advanced........... HORSEFEATHERS!!!
<SNIP>

Pray that no one has a z/ARCH or Herc laptop stolen where they are
running their company's data on that system. Or you could be reading
about the same thing for a "mainframe".

Later,
Steve Thompson

I would guess, and that's all that it is, is that most thieves wouldn't
even know what they had. Unless it was deliberate business espionage,
the thief would probably be P.O.'ed because a FlexES laptop runs either
RedHat Linux or SCO UnixWare and not Windows, so they'd need to wipe the
OS and install Windows (likely pirated as well).

And, again, in most cases the thief would not really know how to crack
the z/OS system, unless it was improperly secured. Physical access to
the z/OS system is not as insecure as physical access to a UNIX system.
(There is not "single user mode").

--
John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
Administrative Services Group
Information Technology

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