ps2...@yahoo.com (Ed Gould) writes: > I am not sure any numbers you can come up with would tell a story (thats > accurate). I suspect even IBM (in some cases) does not have a clue as to what > is > running on any given machine. Especially in the "sensitive areas" of the > government. I knew of one place that was forbidden to call IBM for software > service. I know IBM has people that have the right clearances (heck I > know/knew > (he has passed away) one that worked in one of the basements of the > Whitehouse > and he couldn't tell me too much what he was working on) He may have told me > too > much just about the existance but we both had clearences at the time.
i can imagine that the person scanning the PROFS backup tapes in response to the congressional subpoena (iran/contra/north), required quite a few clearances. more recent ... Hacking of White House E-Mail Affected Diverse Departments http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/technology/04hack.html Gmail Hack Targeted White House http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576361863723857124.html a little topic drift in this recent post: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#61 z/OS System Programmer Needed East Coast -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
