Like the story a friend tells of working at CIA and having CA-Top Secret, having to explain to an auditor why there were books labeled "TOP SECRET" sitting out on a bookshelf, instead of being stored in a safe!
On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 7:30 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 20:40:41 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > >My boss on the government side would pull tapes and tell key people that > they were dead, then have everyone else continue the test without the > pulled tapes or "dead" personnel. That made for a much more reasonable > test, since in a real disaster bad things happen. > > > A beta site of one of our products disabled the volume containing our load > library > then issued a shutdown command. Crashed. Some shutdown code was > transient. > We fixed it. > > And an early version signed on with a message on the Operators' console, > "SECRET; > property of [vendor]; all rights reserved." Or something lawyers thought > we should > say. We quickly learned there are some sites where operators are not > allowed to > routinely dismiss a message containing the S-word. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
