Then 'real reason' should be: the 'ease of breaking in' multiplied by 'the result of breaking in', both weighed by personal weight factors. That is why some still try to break in banks.
Kees. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Bill Johnson > Sent: 27 May, 2019 18:20 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Fwd: Just how secure are mainframes? | Trevor Eddolls > > Your analogies are similar to claiming houses are broken into more than > banks because there are more of them. Whereas the real reason is the ease > of breaking in. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Monday, May 27, 2019, 11:45 AM, Chad Rikansrud > <mainfr...@bigendiansmalls.com> wrote: > > At the risk of re-kicking the already dead horse: Bill, you're comparing > apples and spiders. > > Are there fewer mainframe 'hacks'? Yep. There are also exponentially > fewer mainframes than Windows / Android / Mac / IOS / Linux. Like - a few > thousand mainframes compared to 2.5 BILLION users of > Windows/Linux/Mac/Android & IOS combined. That is somewhere between > 250,000 - 500,000x more installs of those OS's. And they are freely > available for literally anyone to poke at. > > What you're arguing "Because Windows gets hacked daily, and mainframes are > never in the news as have being hacked - means that mainframes are more > secure .. more 'hack-proof'" Is like saying that: > > -- Homes in Toronto are more hurricane-proof because fewer of them are > destroyed than in Key West. > OR > -- Babies are better drivers than their parents, because their parents get > in accidents every day. > OR > -- People in Greenland are less susceptible to cancer because fewer people > die of it than do in the US. > > For years people thought Macs were less susceptible to viruses than their > Windows counterparts... because? They never read about Mac hacks. The > reality? There were way fewer Macs. Now? Still much less marketshare > than Windows, but lots of Mac hacks/malware out there because they have > more than doubled their market share in 6-8 years. > > Mainframe hardware / software is built by humans for humans (BHFH?) and > will thus always have vulnerabilities and misconfigurations because we all > make mistakes. Mainframe is decidedly just as hackable - by any > definition of that word. > > Cheers, > > Chad > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
