On 25 Sep 2006 03:41:05 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >See "landmines" in http://www.isham-research.co.uk/dd.html > >The German adjective - not very politically correct - is "getürkt". > >I frequently mention my dear old HP41CV in the footnotes to the MIPS tables. >That's because >one of the things it's used for is to find landmines. > >In any given set of received MIPS tables there will be one or more >single-digit errors - >usually caused by one or more values being truncated rather than rounded. In >any other set, >the "errors" are often in different places. > >I recommend David Kahn's Codebreakers as an elementary text - wrapped up in >several good >narratives are some important lessons in signal security. Paraphrasing, >reformatting etc. > >His advice is to take as much care with the input as with the output. If HP's >ruse caught >anyone then it's their own fault.
I believe that improper use was made of people's social security numbers and other personal information. From what I read in the Wall Street Journal, the investigators obtained phone records and other information under false pretenses. It was more than just phony e-mails. While this topic really isn't mainframe related it does point out that we need to be careful about who has access to production data and that an organization may need to rethink how it creates test data. If test data is normally a copy of production (or subset thereof), security needs to be as strong in the test environment as it is in production. It may also mean that test data has to have personal information scrambled. > >Grüße an Felix, übrigens. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
