On 9 Sep 2013 17:21:22 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
(Message-ID:<p8ps29dehr76q9k41pgud8dot2kjf3v...@4ax.com>)
cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca (Clark Morris) wrote:
On 9 Sep 2013 07:41:42 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you
wrote:
I once enquired into the question
<snip>
Sysprogs, even disgruntled ones, have not usually been
problematic in
mainframe shops; and it is well that this is the
case. Anyone who
makes much use of locks needs locksmiths too.
This brings up the very interesting question of whether a
senior
mainframe systems programmer would be able to take as much
information
from his/her installation as Edward Snowden seemingly has
from the
NSA. If so, is it in the nature of the job or was someone
lax within
the NSA organization?
If you have write access to an APF library, you can read
from and write to any dataset. If people were suspicious
of you, your accesses could be found out after the
fact. If you're very good or very sneaky, even post-access
auditing won't find out what you've done.
No, I won't explain how. I'll leave it as an exercise for
the student, who will likely get caught, fired, and maybe
indicted.
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