We have sort of the opposite 'problem'. Our network security people run some 
kind of probe against every device found on our network. When it pokes the HMC, 
he calls home and reports a possible intruder. Then Support Center opens an 
incident and our CE gets dragged in. I tried to get the HMCs exempted from our 
internal probe. No dice. No exceptions. Our guys actually told me to ask 
Support Center to ignore the HMC complaint. 

We all know the classic tale of the boy who cried wolf. If you recall, it was 
the wolf who won the day. 

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J.O.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler 
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
626-302-7535 Office
323-715-0595 Mobile
[email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of David L. Craig
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 9:22 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: (External):Re: IBM

On 15Oct16:1752+0000, Lance D. Jackson wrote:

> This is disturbing: 
> http://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-allows-chinese-government-to-review-so
> urce-code-1444989039

If your only concern is IP misappropriation, I understand your concern.
My concern is the possibility of backdoors in appliances like the HMC and SE 
boxen.  The problem is we don't know just what the Chinese are looking at nor 
for.  Neither can we know if any apparent acceptance by them of the code as 
untainted is applicable to the code our machines are running.  Are any other 
customers receiving such preferential treatment (perhaps the good folks at No 
Such Agency)? 
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May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly!

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