On Tue, 21 May 2013 00:03:00 -0400, Thomas Kern wrote: >On 05/20/2013 11:21 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >> at 03:17 PM, John McKown said: >> >>> http://mainframed767.tumblr.com/post/50574743147/big-iron-back-door-maintp-part-two >> >> Control the resources, not the tools. >> >> There are easier ways to get a shell on your desktop if you're allowed >> to submit jobs. Where is the security breach? > >The security breach is in HR for hiring someone who would do this to >their own system, their own company, their own country. > What "breach"!? A poorly informed hack writer in a posting to a blog (the paradigm of responsibly peer-reviewed media) carelessly referred to a routine (but fairly uncommon) procedure as a "hack". Through the magic of rumor, mostly in these lists, this has escalated to a threat to national security. Give us a freaking break!
(I truly hope I'm overlooking some intended sarcasm.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
