Compared to what? ....compared to a mainframe locked in a vault.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 7:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mainframes open to internet attacks? In <[email protected]>, on 08/27/2015 at 05:38 PM, "R.S." <[email protected]> said: >What I understod from the lecture: >a) mainframes are old, obsolete, but unfotunately sometimes still in >use - which is a sin. If they do the job as well as or better than available alternatives then they're not obsolete. >b) mainframes are insecure Compared to what? -- 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
