0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes: > A recurrent question in these fora is, "How can I make links appearing > in documents viewed in a mainframe editor active?" Cbttape.org > probably has an answer. Or an ISV. > > Many years ago, when the risks of TCP/IP were first suspected (the > perceived hazard then was information theft), someone suggested > hereabouts that only authorized data administrators should be allowed > use of TCP/IP. No, was the counter, people with such authority should > be forbidden TCP/IP, which shoulc be allowed only to users with weak, > harmless IDs and no access to sensitive data. > > Years ago, at the height of the Good Times virus hoax, the > conventional and correct wisdom was that viruses spread only by floppy > disks, not by email. Microsoft and others jumped in to fill that > void.
predating morris worm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm by nearly year, was xmas exec (email) on bitnet (this fora originated on corporate sponsored university bitnet). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Tree_EXEC we had looked at problem before that ... but people wanted to do things like that anyway. recent thread http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#47 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#49 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#50 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#56 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#59 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#83 Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#85 Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS? at 1996 Moscone MDC, all the banners said "internet" but the constant refrain in all the sessions was "preserve your investment". The issue was that a paradigm of automatic executed scripts included in data files had grown on on small, private, safe, business lans ... and was being extended to the wild anarchy of the internet w/o any additional countermeasures. Until he passes, the Internet RFC standards editor use to let me help with STD1. He also sponsored my talk on Why the internet isn't business critical dataprocessing for ISI and USC computer security graduate students (in part based on the compensating procedures I had to do for "electronic commerce"). recent reference http://www.galric.com/~lynn/2017e.html#11 The Geniuses that Anticipated the Idea of the Internet http://www.galric.com/~lynn/2017e.html#14 The Geniuses that Anticipated the Idea of the Internet Shortly after graduation and joining the science center had (also) ported APL\360 to CP/67-CMS for CMS\APL ... redoing memory management for large virtual memory, demand paged environment, also adding API to system services (like file i/o), opening APL to doing real world applications. One of the early users on CMS\APL on the science center system were the business planners in Armonk hdqtrs, loading the most valuable corporate data ... detailed customer information, and doing business models. The science center also had a lot of non-employee users, including staff and students from universities in the boston area (mit, bu, etc). As a result, we had to demonstrate a very high level of integrity and security. A couple years later, IBM had hired former gov. employee as CSO (at one time had been head of presidential detail) and I got assigned to run around with him ... talking about computer security (and learning a little about physical security). -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
