rt
> says
> "if it's attached to a network none of this applies"
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#10 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#11 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
the science center
I remember the 'security paper' CIA published after MVS got B1 rating.
There was a tuning paper that came out about the same time. One was green and
one was yellow. Anyway, long story short, last paragraph in security report
says
"if it's attached to a network none of this applies"
In a m
On 6/21/2013 10:00 AM, Roland Kinsman wrote:
So, this is going to sound extremely naïve, but I wonder if having EBCDIC
instead of ASCII helped make IBM mainframe OS less penetrable to hackers.
As Shmuel noted, early S/360 operating systems had very little
protection. The earliest lacked stora
On 6/21/2013 1:07 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
OS/360 was a swiss chees, but, as you noted, not because of the
character set.
05F0
0A0C
Just 0A0C will do it, but unfortunately it takes (nearly) forever - I
tried it once, either on a 360/50 or 65, and it took just over four
h
In <8709522170369998.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo@listserv.ua.edu>, on
06/21/2013
at 09:34 AM, Tom Marchant said:
>The character encoding that is used is irrelevant. The thing that
>makes an operating system less penetrable is a design that is based
>upon system integrity. From the earliest d
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#10 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
of course there was also some amount of rivalry between the 5th flr
(multics) and 4th flr (cp/67). they (also) had a lot of very security
oriented customers.
recent
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:00:36 -0500, Roland Kinsman wrote:
>I wonder if having EBCDIC instead of ASCII helped make IBM
>mainframe OS less penetrable to hackers.
The character encoding that is used is irrelevant. The thing that
makes an operating system less penetrable is a design that is
based
rjkins...@hotmail.com (Roland Kinsman) writes:
> So, this is going to sound extremely naïve, but I wonder if having
> EBCDIC instead of ASCII helped make IBM mainframe OS less penetrable
> to hackers.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix
1) lots of attacks are proporti
Actually I would say its that the Operating system has been in
'development'/available for more then 50 years.
more time to get it right.
Then is the aspect that in the earlier years there was less of a push for
getting out the door, because there was not the same level of competition.
The aspec
Neither EBCDIC nor ASCII is a very good SBCS, but this is in some
considerable measure because no SBCS can be a very good one. 256 code
points is not enough.
For the usual reasons, talked about here in other contexts in recent
days, the industry has been resistant to adopting DBCSs and MBCSs; but
So, this is going to sound extremely naïve, but I wonder if having EBCDIC
instead of ASCII helped make IBM mainframe OS less penetrable to hackers.
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From: Mike Schwab
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:34:59 -0500
Posted link on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC#External_links
Thanks, Mike. I did see the EBCDIC article, but I did not notice the link near
the bottom. But I think this merits a separate article, and I might just post
it. After all
On 6/20/2013 11:28 AM, Roland Kinsman wrote:
old reference that EBCDIC was one of the biggest goofs for 360 ... was
supposed to have been ascii ... "EBCDIC and the P-Bit (The Biggest
Computer Goof Ever)"
http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
In my estimation the problem was not the P-
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Roland Kinsman wrote:
> http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
>
> This is fascinating. Someone should put this on Wikipedia.
Posted link on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC#External_links
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From...
Re: Ported Tools - Unix
"
old reference that EBCDIC was one of the biggest goofs for 360 ... was
supposed to have been ascii ... "EBCDIC and the P-Bit (The Biggest
Computer Goof Ever)"
http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
"
This is fascinating. Someone should p
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