john gilmore wrote:
... Those of us who build systems often include trap doors in them
that facilitate our own testing (and subsequent maintenance)
operations, and in an OCO era we often leave them in these systems...
Yikes! Are you serious about having done this??!
With (E)JES and other products from PSI, there is no equivalent to
typing "Joshua" at the War Operations Planned Response (WOPR) console.
Nor IMHO should such a "back door" *ever* be implemented into in *any*
software product -- be it freeware, shareware, or fully supported
ISV-ware for MVS or any other business platform!
I can assure you that PSI developers have *never* implemented such
things and we have even been asked, by large, security conscious
customers, to contractually certify that no such undocumented access
facilities exist!
After all, look how much trouble Matthew Broderick's character caused in
"War Games"!!! :-)
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