[email protected] (Joe Mc) writes: > I'm getting into a rather heated argument with a non mainframe > colleague about whether the mainframe has been hacked or > not. Legitimate hacking, not a disgruntled employee doing something > illegal and not loss of tapes or other media. I'm talking the > mainframe platform. Thoughts?
once I took the bait on such a taunt prior to virtual memory being announced for 370 ... an internal document found its way into the hands of somebody from the press (sort of a corporate pentagon papers thing). there was big investigation and afterwards all the corporate copiers were retrofitted with an (unique) ID-tag that would show up on every page copied. for an example see the bottom of each of these scanned pages from gray presentation http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/grayft84.pdf somewhat as a result, the future system project (was going to replace all 370, as different from 360/370 as 360 had been different from prior generations) went to vm370-based software copy documents ... with some additional security features added to vm370s that hosted the future system documents. misc. past posts mentioning future system http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys One weekend I had some benchmark time in machine room that contained one such vm370 ... and some of the people responsible (for special security addons supporting super-secure softcopy future system documents) taunted that even if I was left alone in the machine room ... I still wouldn't be able to access the documents. I countered that it would take less than five minutes ... most of the time was making sure the system was disabled from any access external to the machine room ... and then I flipped a bit in storage ... so anything/everything entered was accepted as valid password. old reference to use of virtual machine systems for security ... of course, I didn't learn about these guys until much later: http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml as to virus ... there is xmas that occured on bitnet almost exactly a year before morris worm on internet. bitnet was corporate sponsored higher educational network ... using similar technology to that used in the (mostly vm370 based) internal network (which was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until possibly late 85 or early 86) ... misc. past posts mentioning bitnet (&/or EARN) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet misc. past posts mentioning internal network http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet reference from vmshare archives http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse?fn=CHRISTMA&ft=PROB -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
