What amazed me was that the President of the US invited the heads of Microsoft, Google and Apple to a meeting to discuss systems security! These are the people that essentially caused the problem in the first place. And why wasn't IBM invited? Allegedly, 65 - 70% of the world's data is held on mainframes. Not sure if that includes all the movies etc held on home PCs.
ALH -----Original Message----- From: Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 2:19 Subject: Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:54:22 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >The examples you give are all software. Indeed. Let's hope people think about the included software when they're buying hardware. History doesn't inspire confidence. Then again, when bodies supposedly mandated to protect national security apparently compromise the firmware of commercial hard drives, what chance do we have ?. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
