--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Rick Fochtman <[email protected]> wrote: From: Rick Fochtman <[email protected]> Subject: Re: IBM Software Secure Support via USA Citizens To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 12:41 PM
------------------------------------------------<snip>----------------------------------------------- Edward Jaffe wrote: > Ed Finnell wrote: > >> We had a CE working 9370 support out of White Plains and he got sent on a >> sevcrit to Montreal. Got stopped at customs and they confiscated his 'tool >> kit' not made in Canada. He went by the hardware store on the way in and >> bought a new one. Charged the customer retail rates with the clock running. >> Nobody said a peep... > > > I went to Edmonton, Alberta in the early 1990s to install some software at a > customer site. Canadian customs found my tape (this was before CDs & > downloads), took me into a back room, and grilled me for at least an hour > about what I was carrying, why I was there, who I was meeting, etc. They > rifled through all of my bags and inspected *everything* right down to my > underwear. They had one of those little goose-neck desk lamps pointed at me > that were so cliche for interrogations on comedy shows. It was all I could do > to keep a straight face. I think they were upset that I wasn't taking them > seriously enough... > --------------------------------------------<unsnip>-------------------------------------------------- Like I keep saying: there's a fine line between security and paranoia; which side are we on? -- Rick Rick: I had a job interview about 20 years ago at a place in California that handled top secret (and above data) all the time. I asked how they contacted IBM for support and how they handled dumps problems etc...The answer I got back was that they didn't contact IBM and you were expected to figure out the issue. I was at that time of the interview pretty sure I was not interested in it so I asked but without source how can you expect to figure out where the problem was and even if you could how could you fix it without telling IBM how to fix it. The answer was surprising even to me. They said you don't. I shook my head and walked out and drove back to the airport and took the plane back and was so disgusted with myself for wasting my time on an interview that if I had been given an outline of all the restrictions that would be put on the job I would not have wasted my time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
