Barry,
What do you think of contacting Lindy off list to see if we can't get
into contact with "heavily customized systems with lots of system
exits". KRI could help them with their technical expertise.......
Ray
On 10/15/2010 06:46 AM, Lindy Mayfield wrote:
I think that there is another bit of wisdom there.
First, I don't think mainframe hacking would be very profitable. In my opinion
information would be the most valuable, and an inside job would be easiest.
Give someone, perhaps disgruntled, a large sum of money and the information
might be bought.
The thing that interests me is the fact that both user and system people are
becoming less and less experienced. I'm even seeing that happen now in most of
the places I visit. Some places have heavily customized systems, with lots of
system exits. They will soon be in serious horse hockey, and many already are.
So if someone should make use of certain resources, some of the most valuable
coming from people with the most experience on these lists, and learn the
internals, there may be gold in them thar hills.
So to speak. :-)
Lindy
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Lindy, you're correct but I think you forgot the corrolary: as good sysprogs
get scarcer, so do the numbers of people capable of compromising the code. As
the systems get more and more complex, it's harder and harder to devise the
mechanisms to compromise those systems.
True, we see less and less suspect SVC code and more and more PC code that
might be suspect. But as these types of problems grow, I'm sure that IBM and
REPUTABLE vendors are working to close any holes that might exist.
Rick
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