Anne, Funny you mentioned that. He was part of the team that looked through the watergate email (profs) and he was also involved in trying to get data from some of the drives. He didn't go into a lot of detail but there was some effort to try and recover overwritten data. I also did not press him for details.
One thing he did tell me was that the White House was using fiber optics for channels. That was decade before IBM made it GA. Something about not having large cables between rooms so if a bomb hit nothing could be leaked between rooms. Ed Sent from my iPad On Jun 4, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
