There have been vulnerabilities in some of the protocols. That said, the 
community has been fairly good about fixing them.


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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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Eh? That's silly. There's nothing inherent about TCP/IP that makes things
hackable. Any connectivity creates potential exposures, whether it's
TCP/IP, SNA, bisync...

On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 3:53 PM z/OS scheduler <z.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Welll, in my opinion the mainframe died when IBM allowed tcpip on their
> servers. From that point onwards it just became another server that could
> be hacked via TCPIP ports.
>
> James O'Leary
>
> Op vr 10 jan. 2020 om 21:05 schreef Steve Smith <sasd...@gmail.com>:
>
> > Well, it is Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0-pLcgq-2M
> >
> > It's also about a bank :-)
> >
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