On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:56:17 -0700 Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote:
:>--- On Wed, 7/22/09, Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> wrote: :>From: Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> :>Subject: Re: Mainframe hacking (getting back on topic) :>To: [email protected] :>Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 6:42 AM :>On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:14:48 -0400 Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> :>wrote: :>:>Binyamin Dissen wrote: :>:>> Before RACF there were expiration dates. :>:>Expiration dates are too easy to bypass. :>Required access to the console. :>----------------------------- :>Not true... We had a programmer who wrote an SVC screener and issued the r xx,u for the update. He got away with it for quite some time. I was walking past the console one day and there were the messages and the reply flying past on the screen. SVC screener = APF. APF means that you can update the dataset without opening it. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

