________________________________ From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, January 22, 2010 1:55:42 PM Subject: Re: "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) ----------------Good stuff deleted------------
Now this goes back aways and my memory is not 100 percent but... There are probably some of you here that remember when the White House (in the 70's-80's) lost a lot of email from around the time of Watergate. I had a friend who was an IBMer working at the White House in that time frame. He was involved in trying to get back all the lost emails. My memory is iffy here but when I was talking with my friend he was telling me how exhaustive IBM worked at getting back the emails. They had quite a few factory types working on getting them back. They were not particularly successful because of data getting written over and recovery was at best spotty. I am pretty sure they ran some type of PROFs (it was VM based that is all I remember) and he got somewhat familiar with reading track dumps and also whiz bang (he never gave me specifics) way of reading what was underneath what was current on the track. He is long time retired and is enjoying a well deserved retirement so I hope he doesn't get in any trouble for anything I am writing here. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
