In <[email protected]>,
on 07/01/2011
at 06:32 PM, Lindy Mayfield <[email protected]> said:
>Is this recent?
Possibly it's recent for USB data keys, but certainly not for CD and
media.
>And if this is recent, just goes to show you, after it all, nothing
>really changed very much over the years.
Well, floppy disks are no longer a useful medium for propagating worm
virus infestations.
>I wonder if this or what other tactic could be used to break into a
>mainframe.
Not this tactic, but other types of social engineering should work
well.
>I've never met at all a mainframe that could be accessed from the
>"outside."
They're quite common, but typically you can't do anything until you
log on.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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