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<CADEq6i-Sx8U8DVF2suwcFJa-Sv3pugU=_zuu6kk4siz5vas...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 03/29/2012
   at 09:57 PM, jan de decker <[email protected]> said:

>There are zillions of ways to hack a zOS system.

Perhaps, but the ones that you describe are due to insider negligence,
not to flaws in z/OS itself.

>I think we will all agree that the cornerstone of zOS security is
>the status of the PSW key and supervisor state bits.

No, the cornerstone is resource control, and the PSW fileds are just a
small piece of that.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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