On 7 Jun 2001, at 22:32, Zachary Uram wrote:
> I never heard of any mainframes being cracked into.
I have -- but I wrote my first program in 1969, and first got paid
to program in 1976. Remote access wasn't all that common in those
days, but most of the systems on the other end of the line were
mainframes -- and a firewall was an explosive bolt to physically cut
the connection to a remote site in an emergency.
David Gillett
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