That is very sad. Poor fellow. For others, in other circumstances, sometimes things are well hidden even though they appear to be in plain sight. One particular system that I often had to log on to, I had written the password on a stickie posted to the front edge of my monitor. Or so folks thought. ;). And it really was the password - or would be with the secret offsets applied. That formula was not posted or shared anywhere, of course.
Linda Sent from my iPhone On Jan 22, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/22/2013 8:19 PM, Scott Ford wrote: >> Proving we mainframes are a pretty smart bunch ... > > Or maybe not? In the late nineties I was working as a contractor at the IRS, > and one of my coworkers was an elderly gentleman whom I would categorize as > an old, congenial grandfather. He had a problem remembering things, and > carried a notebook where he recorded JCL, his job card information, and other > job related stuff; unfortunately next time he needed the information, he > seemed to have forgotten that or where he recorded it. He wrote his password > and user id on a Post-It, stuck to the side of his terminal (PC). He used > AAA111. When advised that this was a security violation, he removed it. The > next day I saw a note in his desk drawer with a BBB222 on it. He was too > young to qualify for Social Security retirement, but might have had a chance > at disability due to his failing memory. As you might think, he didn't last > too long at the job. > > > Gerhard Postpischil > Bradford, Vermont > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
