On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 23:56:47 -0500, Edward Gould wrote: > >Our auditors would hop all over me and my management if we ever did something >like what you are talking about. One time I got a fix for one of our MF >products and I had to get the Presidents personal OK for me to upload it to >the MF. It was an *EXTREMELY* important fix. The auditor sat with me while I >explained to the President how I got the fix and how I was going to upload it >to the MF. The auditor grilled me like there was his job on the line (mine was >more likely the case). The auditor asked every blankety blank detail on how I >learned about the fix and the product that was involved the fix number and how >I d/l’d it. How was I going to get it to the MF and on and on. I felt like I >was guilty for even asking for it. I asked him in the future did he want to >get involved and micromanage every fix and he said *YES*. The President said >well we have a solution. I *Never* want to go through that again. He did not >blink when I asked him if Tape was OK and he said sure as long as the package >is sealed from the vendor to us. > What if you need it within hours? Well, the express services can be very prompt, on a graduated price scale. Or a courier pouch on a private jet, for even higher cost.
>IOW we are going to be majorly hurt if IBM decided to drop tape. > I'd be inclined to trust the SHA-1 checksum transmitted via an independent verifiable conduit more than a heat-sealed polyethylene sleeve on a 3480 cartridge. SMP/E will verify the checksum and Do No Evil. <SOAPBOX> All the risk with email, www, USB, arises from clients that automatically execute programs embedded in documents or support cross-site scripting. The defense should be clients which unconditionally, not optionally, refuse to open attachments. Does CURL satisfy this? </SOAPBOX> -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
