On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 21:23:35 -0400 "Arthur T." <ibmm...@intergate.com> wrote:
:>On 9 Sep 2013 17:21:22 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main :>(Message-ID:<p8ps29dehr76q9k41pgud8dot2kjf3v...@4ax.com>) :>cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca (Clark Morris) wrote: :>>On 9 Sep 2013 07:41:42 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you :>>wrote: :>>>I once enquired into the question :>>>Sysprogs, even disgruntled ones, have not usually been :>>>problematic in :>>>mainframe shops; and it is well that this is the :>>>case. Anyone who :>>>makes much use of locks needs locksmiths too. :>>This brings up the very interesting question of whether a :>>senior :>>mainframe systems programmer would be able to take as much :>>information :>>from his/her installation as Edward Snowden seemingly has :>>from the :>>NSA. If so, is it in the nature of the job or was someone :>>lax within :>>the NSA organization? :>If you have write access to an APF library, you can read :>from and write to any dataset. If people were suspicious :>of you, your accesses could be found out after the :>fact. If you're very good or very sneaky, even post-access :>auditing won't find out what you've done. :>No, I won't explain how. I'll leave it as an exercise for :>the student, who will likely get caught, fired, and maybe :>indicted. Don't pretend that it is super sekrit. Any SYSPROG that writes code (other than a SMP jockey) knows how to do it. -- Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
