On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:07:18 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: >Kirk Talman wrote: >> Someone is out of touch >> <bigotry> >> >> "... Older legacy systems are difficult because the industry just doesn't >> have the tools [to encrypt data]," he says. >> >> </bigotry> >> >> IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 04/19/2007 11:53:18 PM: >> >> <http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/032907-tjx-breach-adopt- standards.html> > >So, how do we call him out, publicly, to change this >perception? What's the proper forum? Certainly not >ibm-main. But isn't it in our best interest to make >sure those kinds of statements are refuted clearly >and publicly and widely? How can we set up some kind >of process to do this? Maybe we let IBM and the press do the job? See this morning's article on cnn.com: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0241650.htm ("zIIP Assisted IPSec" announced for z9, among other things...) ((And maybe the mainframe's not so dead after all?))
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