In <[email protected]>, on
03/28/2012
at 02:37 PM, Andy Wood <[email protected]> said:
>The problems were usually coding errors of the nature of the R13 STM
>as described by Ray, however there were even deliberate "backdoors".
Those are defects[1] in the product, not in z/OS. As Walt and others
have repeatedly written, your security is only as good as what you
allow in your authorized libraries.
>Such backdoors may have included some sort of checking to try to
>prevent misuse,
They almost invariably do, and almost invariably the checking is
inadequate :-(
[1] Yes, defects, not features.
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