From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 05 July, 2012 Subject: Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityFederal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security
I've mentioned several times that in the early/mid 90s there were several industry presentations by the consumer dial-up online banking operations about their move to the internet ... motivated by the high-cost of supporting serial-port modems and proprietary networking (which basically would be offloaded to ISPs). At the same time, the commercial dial-up online banking/cash-management operations were saying that they would never move to the internet because of a long list of security issues
ENISA Warns Banks: Assume All PCs Are Infected
http://news.softpedia.com/news/ENISA-Warns-Banks-Assume-All-PCs-Are-Infected-279470.shtml
Court Slams Bank For Ignoring Zeus Attack
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212901505
recent posts mentioning zeus, dial-up online banking, cash-management:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#93 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#52 Banking malware a growing threat, as new variant of Zeus is detected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#61 Banking malware a growing threat, as new variant of Zeus is detected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#70 Four Sources of Trust, Crypto Not Scaling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#71 Password shortcomings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#11 The 15 Worst Data Security Breaches of the 21st Century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#2 Harris HCX Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#24 ExplicitTacit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#14 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#18 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#32 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#37 Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#79 Does Two-Factor Authentication Need Fixing?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 05 July, 2012 Subject: Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ? Blog: Mainframe Expertsre:
I was able to find dhrystone for comparison for e5-2600 ... I can't
find dhrystone for e7-8800 for straight comparison. Intel web site has
a number of product announcements with various TPC-* (several done by
IBM ... so IBM as a company isn't opposed to TPC benchmarks). This is
IBM TPC-H done for E7 8socket-chip ... 10cores/socket-chip ... 80cores
total, 2threads/core, 160threads total (aka appears to be 160
processor machine to software)
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/benchmarks/server/xeon-e7-8800-server/xeon-e7-8800-server-tpc-benchmark-h.html
Also, Amazon is advertising that they are provisioning e5-2600 blades as standard cloud "EC2". It would be interesting to see Amazon & Google price/performance evaluation for various E5 & E7 configurations.
Here are straight processor comparisons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z9 ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z10
2005 Z9 17.8BIPS 54processor 2008 Z10 30BIPS 64processor 2010 Z196 50BIPS 80processorand
individual chips
2003 INTEL 9.7BIPS 2005 AMD 14.5BIPS 2006 AMD 20BIPS 2006 INTEL 49BIPS 2008 INTEL 82BIPS 2009 AMD 78BIPS 2010 INTEL 147BIPS 2011 AMD 109BIPS 2011 INTEL 178BIPSabout 2005, Z9 BIPS and "86" BIPS were comparable, but vendors were moving to RISC-based cores (translating 86 instructions to RISC micro-ops for execution, nullifying much of the RISC/86 differences) ... as well as adding more "cores" per chip. There is misconception possibly associated $500 "86" consumer machines being representative of I/O capability and throughput of server class machines.
so if two E5 (e5-2600) chips benchmark is over 500BIPS ... what would four E5 (e5-4600) chips really benchmark and what would eight E7 chips benchmark???
for other drift; previous mention posts are about the new
supercomputer at LLNL making #1 on the list
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#47 .
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#54 .
however, the LLNL machine wasn't built with price/performance as primary consideration ... like the cloud vendors are doing.
other recent posts mentioning e5-2600
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#50 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#64 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#3 NASA unplugs their last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#4 Memory versus processor speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#94 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#99 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#105 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#4 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#7 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#4 Think You Know The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#35 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#52 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#62 What are your experiences with Amdahl Computers and Plug-Compatibles?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 05 July, 2012 Subject: Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ? Blog: Mainframe Expertsre:
I was going to do 128-system by ye1992 with HA/CMP ...as per this meeting
in Ellison's conference room early Jan1992.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
The reason that we were working with Oracle was that their "open
system" platform was shared with vax/cluster ... so it had cluster
support as part of the native platform that also ran on unix ... once
unix provided cluster support which we had done in HA/CMP.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
My wife had previously been con'ed into going to POK to be in charge
of loosely-coupled architecture .... and while there she had created
the Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture. however because of a
combination of low uptake (until sysplex, only ims hot-standby) and
periodic battles with the communication group trying to force her into
using SNA/VTAM for loosely-coupled (aka mainframe for "cluster")
operation ... she didn't stay long.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
I had also worked on supporting various loosely-coupled scale-up and familiar with mainframe support necessary for RDBMS.
The vendors that had done RDBMS on vax/cluster also had a list of ten things that vax/cluster had done wrong. In any case, I was able to do something that emulated the semantics of the vax/cluster API (easing "open" RDBMS port to unix cluster) that was significantly more efficient. At the time, the IBM non-mainframe RDBMS was code that was still under development for OS2 ... it wasn't until much later that it provided unix support and eventually got around to cluster support. As previously mentioned ... the mainframe DB2 people complained that if I was allowed to continue ... it would be a minimum of five years ahead of where they were. This contributed to the decision to transfer the effort (announcing it a couple weeks later as the corporate supercomputer for scientific & numeric intensive only) and told us we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors).
I refer to it in this 2009 post "From the Annals of Release No
Software Before Its Time"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#43
referring to this about purescale & oracle rac/exadata
http://freedb2.com/2009/10/10/for-databases-size-does-matter
and our 1992 ha/cmp 128-system cluster scale-up being renamed pureScale
with 100 power systems
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28593.wss
In any case, Oracle had already seen some of the product games that the corporation plays from what happened to ha/cmp work from Jan 1992.
note if you look at these two posts that I mentioned several times
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#47 .
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#54 .
I had been working with LLNL since before 1988 on cluster scale-up also
being applicable to what they were doing. They had a
distributed/network filesystem on their Cray machine that we ported to
HA/CMP and was working on HA/CMP cluster scale-up ... not only for
128-system parallel oracle, but also 128-way filemanagement as well as
128-system numerical intensive. some also mentioned in this series of
email from 1991 & Jan 1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
possibly within hrs of the last email referenced (discussion of
meeting at LLNL, end of Jan1992), the effort was transferred, we were
told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processor. A
couple weeks later it was announced as supercomputer with 128-system
suppose to be available ye1992 for scientific & numerical
intensive ONLY ... press reference from 17Feb1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
and another press reference from 11May1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
... again ... "From the Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time" (20 yrs later)
footnote ... prior to 1988 ... I did various things off&on with LLNL
... this is reference to tests I did of national lab "RAIN" benchmark when
they were looking at getting 70 4341s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790212
later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790212b
and then few days later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790220
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790226
as mentioned in the Greater IBM referenced post ... we decided to leave after being told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors ... and did some consulting for the person at LLNL that was heading up commercializing LLNL technology.
And further topic drift regarding the 4341 footnote ... because of breaching price/performance threashold as well as being able to deployed outside traditional datacenter enviornment (small footprint, reduced environment requirements, etc) ... there was enormous explosion in sales of 4341 (and 4331).
There were several big problems with MVS being able to participate in this market... the enormous people support requirements for MVS exceeded available resources as well as support costs dedicated by this new 4341 mid-range market (including the leading edge of the distributed computing tsunami).
The other issue was the available disk to be sold into this market was the 3370 FBA disk. MVS only supported CKD (still only supports CKD) with only new CKD disk being 3380 (3370 FBA disk for the mid-range market). This didn't preclude customers replacing existing machines and continue to use older generation CKD disks ... but didn't have anything for the rapidly expanding new market.
Eventually there was pressure to come out with the 3375 ... which was
CKD simulation built on real 3370 FBA ... trying to address some of
the market barriers for MVS in the mid-range market. This continues to
be major issue for MVS (and its descendants) ... since there hasn't
been any real CKD disks manufactured for decades. pasts mentioning
CKD, FBA, multi-track searches, et
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
old email mentioning 4300s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:59:52Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> writes:
grand coulee dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Coulee_Dam
bonnevile power administration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Power_Administration
above points to this list of dams & generating capacities
(some in canada)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectric_dams_on_the_Columbia_River
above list 24,149MW capacity for columbia, including 3dams in canada
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Interesting News Article Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:41:39"J. Clarke" <jclarkeusenet@cox.net> writes:
... but others claim that is just obfuscation ... business people telling the risk managers to fiddle the inputs until the desired results were achieved
How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/how-wall-streets-quants-lied-to-their-computers/
fiddling data referred to in this thread about fraud making recent news
(in linkedin financial crime risk, fraud and security):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#76 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#85 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#87 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#92 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#94 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
also reference
Math, leverage and risk
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NF20Dj03.html
from above:
Benoit Mandelbrot, in his 2004 The Misbehavior of Markets, had pointed
them out with mathematical elegance we could not hope to match
(Mandelbrot had pointed out flaws in the emerging underlying theory as
early as 1962).
... snip ...
The (MIS)Behavior Of Markets
https://www.amazon.com/The-Misbehavior-Markets-Turbulence-ebook/dp/B004PYDBEO
although
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit_Mandelbrot
Mandelbrot left IBM in 1987, after 35 years and 12 days, when IBM
decided to end pure research in his division.
... snip ...
Mendelbrot description of period from 60s through the last decade was continuing to use same computations even when they are repeatedly shown to be wrong.
some of Mendelbrot's references are similar to this (by nobel prize winner in economics)
Thinking Fast and Slow
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-and-Slow-ebook/dp/B00555X8OA
Since then, my questions about the stock market have hardened into a
larger puzzle: a major industry appears to be built largely on an
illusion of skill. Billions of shares are traded every day, with many
people buying each stock and others selling it to them
... snip ...
which appears to strongly support the enormous amounts of wealth being accumulated is either blind luck and/or enormous amounts of fraud
'For you ... anything.' Barclays Libor emails paint ugly picture
http://buzz.money.cnn.com/2012/07/04/barclays-libor-email/
from above:
Ever feel like the financial markets are simply a rigged game where
the house (i.e. the world's largest banks) always win? Reading text
messages and emails between traders at Barclays (BCS) about their
often successful attempts to manipulate global benchmarks for interest
rates will only reinforce that belief.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Interesting News Article Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:55:15Andy Leighton <andyl@azaal.plus.com> writes:
Quantas hit by leap second issue?
http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.ibm-main/browse_thread/thread/7b6b59453a8dfcc2/146d1ad10ed2bab3?lnk=gst&q=leap+second#146d1ad10ed2bab3
Qunatas gets rocked by Amadeus
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/02/qantas_network_down/
Amadeus was adopted from the Eastern "System One" reservation system. my wife did short stint as chief architect for Amadeus ... but she came down on the side of using x.25 and the SNA forces had her replaced. It didn't do much good since they went with x.25 anyway.
"System One" was running on 370/195 in the 70s and was involved in
"death" of IBM's Future System effort ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Houston science center had done an analysis that a future system machine built from fastest available hardware (i.e. used in 195) running "System One" ... would have throughput of 370/145 (between 10:1 and 30:1 slowdown) ... analysis putting final nails in the "Future System" coffin.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Operating System, what is it? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:07:31Chris Jewell <chrisj@puffin.com> writes:
virtual memory & virtual machine created isolation boundaries.
this has gone 404, but lives on at the wayback machine ... I didn't
learn about them until much later:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
one of the issues was complete source for cp67 (and later vm370) was shipped ... customer could rebuild exact system from source. there is folklore from the early 80s that the agency asked for exact source that corresponded to everything in any particular running MVS system release. the corporation formed a task force that eventually spent $5M investigating the issue before concluding that it wasn't practical (exact source was never shipped and there were so many different build processes for all the different components that it would be extremely difficult to identify the different sources that corresponded to all the different components that were brought together for any particular release distribution).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Operating System, what is it? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:26:16Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
IUCV when in with vm370 in the later part of the 70s (before xa). SPM had been done internally on cp67 by the PISA Science Center and then migrated to VM370. For whatever reason, the development group ignored it for the product ... releasing a series of SPM subsets (VMCF, ICUV, etc)
cp67&vm370 were supposedly micro-kernels with absolute minimum function for providing virtual machines ... with all other functions done in what was called service virtual machines (now sometimes called virtual appliances) ... that would contain more complex strategies for things like sharing, permissions, etc. There were numerous issues over the decades when people were brought over that had experience with bloated operating systems ... and assumed that the same approach should be used ... implementing everything in the base kernel rather than moving into separate virtual address space (strategy that would periodically accumulate enormous complexity in the base kernel).
with the majority of people trained in bloated kernel paradigm ... it was constant battle to have things done in virtual address spaces ... rather than the base kernel.
when they finally allowed the original internal network support to ship to customers (ran in service virtual machine) ... it shipped with "SPM" support in the source ... even tho vm370 didn't ship "SPM".
a few past "SPM" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#32 z900 and Virtual Machine Theory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#51 other cp/cms history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#47 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#8 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#16 intersection between autolog command and cmsback (more history)
the author of REXX wrote a multi-user spacewar game that operated based on SPM ... service virtual machine running the game with all the clients in individual user virtual machine ... communicating via "SPM" ... with the internal network support providing "SPM" forwarding services so that it clients could be either on the same real machine or different real machines in the network
misc. past posts mentioning service virtual machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#26 Original K & R C Compilers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#77 COMTEN- IBM networking boxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#72 IUCV in VM/CMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#59 8086 memory space
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#58 Q ALLOC PAGE vs. CP Q ALLOC vs ESAMAP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#10 What part of z/OS is the OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#45 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#46 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#22 vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#16 intersection between autolog command and cmsback (more history)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#25 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#52 IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#6 Multics on Vmware ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#21 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#36 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#48 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#67 Operating systems are old and busted
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#3 Hypervisors May Replace Operating Systems As King Of The Data Center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#4 Why do we think virtualization is new?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#39 New, 40+ yr old, direction in operating systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#41 New, 40+ yr old, direction in operating systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#75 virtual appliance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#55 Kernels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#15 Kernels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#22 Was CMS multi-tasking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#97 Is virtualization diminishing the importance of OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#14 recent mentions of 40+ yr old technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#22 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#51 Baudot code direct to computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#57 VMware renders multitasking OSes redundant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#62 Virtualization: What is it exactly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#56 Computer History Museum
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#59 Operating Systems for Virtual Machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#64 Operating Systems for Virtual Machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#66 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#67 Status of Arpanet/Internet in 1976?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#1 Status of Arpanet/Internet in 1976?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#35 Operation Virtualization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#73 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#74 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#0 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header time-stamp?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#25 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#26 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#33 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#35 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#48 A brief history of CMS/XA, part 1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#49 My first mainframe experience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#56 VAXen on the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#24 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#38 Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#64 Typeface (font) and city identity
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 06 July, 2012 Subject: Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
Zeus: How to Fight Back; Sophisticated Trojan Demands New Game Plan
http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/interviews/zeus-how-to-fight-back-i-1592?rf=2012-07-06-eb
this was the EU FINREAD standard from the 90s for all PCs
... countermeasure to compromised endpoint ... assume all endpoints
may be compromised. misc. past posts mentioning EU FINREAD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#finread
more news:
Cybercrooks preying on small businesses
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/06/cybercrooks-preying-on-small-businesses/
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 06 July, 2012 Subject: Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ? Blog: Mainframe Expertsre:
re:
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/7/2/c-is-for-compute-google-compute-engine-gce.html
A guy at Thinking Machines in Cambridge (building facing Charles just
a couple hundred yrds from Lotus) originated WAIS and then left to form
WAIS, Inc (had offices in converted house in Menlo Park just north of
Palo Alto line). WAIS, Inc was bought by AOL ... and he went on to do
the wayback machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine
The original specs for container datacenter was done at the wayback
machine (although Google applied for patent on the concept)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter
Various cloud mega-datacenters with hundreds of thousands (or millions of processor cores) around the world can look like enormous warehouse with hundreds or thousands of shipping containers.
Internet IN A BOX!
https://blogs.oracle.com/geekism/entry/the_internet_in_a_box
fully configured z196 with 80 processors (aka "cores") ... with each processor operating at less than BIP/processor costs $28M. IBM report has it doing approx. $5B in mainframe hardware/year or the equivalent of approx. 180 80-processor z196. Ignoring the cloud datacenters are getting at least 10times the processing-power/core ... a single mega-datacenter million core/processor z196 complex would translate into 12,500 80-processor z196s ... or 70yrs of mainframe sales at the current rate. It would be a minimum of ten times that if looking at equivalent processing power ... or 700yrs of mainframe sales (at the current rate) for a single mega-datacenter.
past posts mentioning mega-datacenter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#72 Price of CPU seconds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#68 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#79 Google Data Centers 'The Most Efficient In The World'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#56 IBM drops Power7 drain in 'Blue Waters'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#27 A "portable" hard disk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#51 Mainframe Hacking -- Fact or Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#14 Facebook doubles the size of its first data center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#46 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#16 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#17 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#19 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#32 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#32 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#9 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#75 Check out June 2011 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#11 PKI "fixes" that don't fix PKI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#32 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#43 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#44 Data Areas?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#53 HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#55 What is Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#63 Intel's 1 teraflop chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#75 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#86 Clouds in mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#22 1979 SHARE LSRAD Report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#11 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#20 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#24 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#78 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#80 Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#82 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#6 Cloud apps placed well in the economic cycle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#41 Are rotating register files still a bad idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#2 NASA unplugs their last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#35 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#41 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#50 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#19 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#20 Mainframes Warming Up to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#59 How many cost a cpu second?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#60 How many cost a cpu second?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#15 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#16 Think You Know The Mainframe?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Interesting News Article Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:53:28"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
Analog (sf magazine) ran a parody of somebody in the court convinced the queen that columbus' ships needed to be built in the mountains where the trees were, cut into three pieces for transport to the harbor and then fitted back together.
take-off on influential congressman got the booster rockets built in his home state ... but they had to be built in sections for transport to canaveral for final assembly. this was as opposed to competing proposal for building in location where they could be transported in single section (but didn't have the equivalent congressional influence).
that aspect was apparently out-of-bounds in the evaluation ... but it is
possibly more similar than shows at first glance ... congressional
meddling was significant factor in both ... some discussed in
this reference post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#94 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
there has been numerous references to Eisenhower originally intended to
warn about military-industrial-congressional complex (MICC) but dropped
congressional at the last minute. My analogy is the
financial-regulatory-congressional complex (FRCC) where the regulatory
agencies were being stripped of power by congress and under heavy
pressure from congress (and others) to not do anything about the few
remaining regulations. I've drawn the analogy about regulatory agencies
being forced into three-monkeys role (hear no evil, see no evil, speak
no evil).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys
recent posts referring to the three-monekys role:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#54 Report: Fed Officials Joked About Housing Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#87 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#91 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#20 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#55 U.S. Needs a National Safety Board for Financial Crashes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#56 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#67 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#42 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#45 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#41 Lawmakers reworked financial portfolios after talks with Fed, Treasury officials
a little x-over from this post:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#3 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
during johnson's presidency, his wife was on a kick about beatification ... eliminating billboards and other efforts. one was to eliminate the overhead transmission lines at grand coulee dam from the powerhouses (generators) to the switchyard (on high area above the dam). The issue was gravity would slump the wires in any sort of container resulting in eliminating separation, arching and causing fire. Engineers that objected were overruled. Then when it happened, the engineers that objected were blamed.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:50:02Andy Champ <no.way@nospam.invalid> writes:
there was some amount of early complaints about the need for Grand
Coulee dam ... sort of justified on being a work/employment project
in the great depression ... but that sort of was silenced onced
ww2 started and electricity was used for all the aluminum that
boeing need for massive number of planes it turned out ... reference
http://www.rbogash.com/Plant%202/2Plant2.html
at this website:
http://www.rbogash.com/
however, recent post discussing ww2 "heavy bomber" program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#62 Early use of the word "computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#64 Early use of the word "computer"
there was article yesterday about three gorges coming on full capacity
... 22.5mw ... just short of the aggregate for all the dams on the
columbia river water shed
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-07/05/content_15550486.htm
a couple recent posts mentioning Mendelbrot's book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#85 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#87 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#92 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#4 Interesting News Article
in the book he spends some amount about fitting patterns
of nile flooding over the last couple millennia. That the person
doing the study ... pg180:
His own calculations showed the Nile could be tamed by a series of
moderate-sized, interdependent reservoirs far upriver from Egypt. But by
the time construction was commissioned in the 1950s, the newly
independent government of Gamal Abdel Nasser preferred a grander
political statement of Egyptian pride, the Aswan High Dam. Still,
Hurst's calculations were needed even for that
... snip ...
My wife remembers going by boat up the three gorges when she was little girl. Her dad had been in europe during ww2 (command of 1154th engineering combat group) ... and afterwards was sent to China to be adviser ("magic") to generalissimo ... and he took his family with him to nanking (later they were evacuated out of nanking in an army cargo plane on three hrs notice when the city was ringed, arriving at the tsing tao airfield after dark, cars&trucks headlights were lined up to light the field).
misc past posts mentioning boeing plant 2:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#59 Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#60 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#66 Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#69 Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#33 The real cost of outsourcing (and offshoring)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#54 Downloading PoOps?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 06 July, 2012 Subject: Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ? Blog: Mainframe Expertsre:
I used FBA (512) for all generic physical fixed-block disks now being manufactured
That is independent of issue of remapping channel programs to scsi, ide, sata, etc ... essentially all are same physical physical fixed-block formated spinning platters with different electronics for command interface
however relatively recently there has been transition from prevalent 512byte fixed blocks to 4096 byte ... older reference:
Western Digital's Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins
http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3691
Western Digital brings Advanced Format to Caviar Green
http://techreport.com/news/18115/western-digital-brings-advanced-format-to-caviar-green
from above:
So-called legacy formatting schemes sandwich each 512-byte sector
between Sync/DAM and ECC blocks that handle data address marking and
error correction, respectively -- and also take up space. You
still need those blocks with Advanced Format, but only every 4KB
rather than every 512 bytes, which translates to a dramatic reduction
in overhead. This approach allows Advanced Format to make more
efficient use of a platter's available capacity, and Western Digital
expects it to boost useful storage by 7-11%, depending on the
implementation. Current 500GB/platter products stand to see an
increase in useful capacity of about 10%, which is really quite
impressive.
... snip ...
then electronics layered on top for specific kind of interface.
Even in the days of mainframe 3310 & 3370 ... the mainframe disk controller would remap the channel program interface into the command interface supported by the physical disks. However CKD emulation to FBA isn't just a matter of mainframe disk controller taking channel program commands and mapping to the physical disk interface ... there is a whole different physical disk format paradigm in CKD that is totally different than the physical disk format paradigm in FBA.
I would then claim that what a channel-attached 3830 disk controller needed to do to convert channel program into 3310/FBA commands versus what it needed to do to convert channel program into 3370/FBA commands ... would be the equivalent to converting channel program into scsi/FBA commands.
The distinction back then ... is that you didn't have a large number of 3370/FBA physical disks connected to non-mainframe channel attached disk controllers ... so it might be assumed that the disk controller channel program interface was synonymous with the interface that the disk controller used to talk to the physical disk (and that the 3310 interface might be identical to the 3370 interface).
I've periodically mentioned that the MVS disk-support/data management people told me that I even if I gave them fully integrated & tested MVS FBA support ... I still needed to show a couple hundred million incremental disk sales to justify $26M cost to cover documentation, training and education. The subtext was that customers were ordering 3380s as fast as they could be produced ... so MVS FBA support would just convert CKD to FBA w/o incremental new sales ... and I wasn't allowed to use the significant life-cycle cost savings in the business justification.
The original extensions for ECKD were done for the 3880 speed matching buffer (calypso) allowing 3mbyte/sec 3380 disks to work with older machines limited to 1.5mbyte/sec channels (158s, 168s, 3031s, 3032s, 3033s) ... which represented an enormous debugging cost. A FBA 3380 wouldn't have had the enormous ECKD speed-matching bugs that calypso had trying to do CKD 3380.
oh, they periodically asked me to come over and play disk engineer in
bldg14 (disk engineering lab) and bldg15 (disk product test lab)
... last time I check satellite photos, a couple of the bldgs. still
standing on the sanjose plant site. misc. past posts about playing
disk engineer in bldgs 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 07 July, 2012 Subject: Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ? Blog: Mainframe Expertsre:
In the early 70s, Amdahl had seminar in large auditorium at MIT about
forming his new company. Somebody in the audience asked him what
argument was used to convince investors to back his clone processor
company. His reply was that customers had already invested hundreds of
billions in 360/370 software and even if IBM were to totally walk away
from 370, that software investment would keep him in business through
the end of the century. The "walk away from 370" could be considered
vieled reference to IBMs future system effort which was going to
completely replace 370 with something completely different (internally
during FS period, 370 projects were being killed off). misc. past
posts mentioning IBM's FS effort during first half of 70s decade
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
when I first wandered into bldg14, they were doing stand-alone, dedicated, 7x24 scheduled "testcell" testing. At one point they had tried installing MVS for concurrent testing ... but found in that environment MVS had 15min MTBF (hang/crash requiring re-ipl). I offered to rewrite i/o supervisor to provide bullet-proof, never-fail operation ... enabling on-demand, concurrent, anytime testing ... greatly improving disk development productivity. I then wrote internal-only document describing what needed to be done, happen to mentioning MVS's 15min MTBF, and brought done the wrath of the MVS group on my head. I was told (unofficially) that I would never get any sort of promotion/award requiring corporate level concurrence since they would always oppose it. Later in the mid-80s, the love affair that the MVS group has with CKD extended to forcing the VM/XA to put out position statement saying CKD was better than FBA ... petty politics trumping technical integrity
IBM FBA interface from the 70s returned block size and fullword number of blocks (FBA "Read device characteristics"). 1970 software drivers would continue to work unchanged with 512-byte size blocks up through 2terabyte disks. Correctly written 1970 drivers, taking into account the returned block size, would work with 4096-byte size blocks up to 16terabyte disks. This avoided the constant CKD software driver changes that occurred until they decided (that since it was pure simulation anyway) ... just settle on standard 3390 geometry (totally ending fiction that there was even any remotely related relationship between CKD geometry and real physical geometry).
for the fun of it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_access_storage_device
from above:
For many applications, FBA not only offered simplicity, but an
increase in throughput. GOAL Systems of Columbus, Ohio, discovered
that an FBA emulator written for VM by Bill Jurist delivered an
unexpected boost of speed.
... snip ...
some documentation make distinction between the last IBM "only" made FBA disk and simulated FBA using SCSI. However, that is relatively trivial distinction since IBM disk controllers always had to translate between channel program interface from the channel to what disk interface expected to see. The primary issue was whether there was a one-to-one mapping or whether there was an enormous amount of simulation required like between CKD paradigm and the FBA paradigm.
and similarly ... my reference upthread to discord in FCS mailing list
mainframe channel engineers layering FICON above FCS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICON
this upthread reference to early Jan92 meeting regarding 128-system
cluster deployments for DBMS, commercial environment (which got
pre-empted and it then takes nearly another 20yrs, "From Annals of
Release No Software Before Its Time"), also has reference to
9333/Harrier ... which was serial-copper 80mbit interface (10mbyte/sec
concurrent in both directions). We wanted it to move to interoperable
with FCS running at 1/8th & 1/4th ... with dual-link, asynchronous
serial-copper interoperable with FCS at 1gbit.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
however, after cluster scale-up was transferred and we were told we
couldn't work on anything with more than four processors, we decide to
leave and instead 9333/harrier evolves into (non-interoperable) SSA
running at 160mbit/sec (20mbyte/sec concurrent in both direction)
serial-copper links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Storage_Architecture
it should have started out with interoperable 128mbit/sec (1/8th FCS) copper-links being able to move up to 256mbit/sec (1/4 FCS)
previous posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#11 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#15 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#25 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#84 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#88 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#89 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#94 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#1 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#2 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#9 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#12 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 07 July, 2012 Subject: Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ? Blog: Mainframe Expertsre:
tiva ... Sowa was at IBM in the 70s, same time that Codd was at IBM in
bldg. 28 where the original relational/sql implementation ("System/R")
was being done on 370/145 vm370 system.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
I was doing part of the implementation as well as getting to play disk
engineer across the street (in bldgs. 14&15)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
One of the other things that I was playing with was helping with VLSI
tool group in bldg. 29 ... which started a project to build a (heavily
influenced) "Sowa" implementation ... that supported complex
structures for VLSI design tools. After leaving in the 90s, I did a
re-implementation from scratch and use it for many of the things I
have on our website ... like internet rfc standards index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
and merged taxonomy and glossaries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/index.html#glosnote
also, for other drift, from sowa's website ... a long discussion of
some of the things about IBM's future system effort
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
When the executive funding unix/posix support on MVS wanted me to help out ... I had this discussion did he really understand why there was such a big uptake of unix in the market. The rise of unix/posix was to free customers from proprietary hardware platforms, allowing them to change/switch to the better price/performance platform with minimum effort (w/o being tied to a specific vendors proprietary hardware ... which was allowing proprietary vendors to charge a large premium, this was somewhat Amdahl's argument for clone processors that I mentioned upthread; although what allowed clone processors to gain market foothold was the corporation's sidetrack into the future system effort).
Much of the cloud activity is very similar to the unix/posix activity from the 80s ... freeing customers from specific hardware platform. The rise of cloud, in fact is largely due to the mega-datacenters able to leverage the optimal, best price/performance hardware for service deployment. The recent Google statements regarding entry into cloud services, in competition with Amazon follow this theme ... with a difference of few dollars ( or even cents) per BIPS becoming major market differentiation.
Unix was the open platform of the 80s and drastically simplified customers moving applications between hardware platforms (compared to 60s & 70s). posix standardization efforts were to further extend that ease. End of the 80s saw the rise of the unix-wars ... supposedly sun & AT&T were going to lock other vendors out ... with the use of AT&T owning the original unix source
In response, the various other vendors formed the open software
foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Software_Foundation
as part of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars
trying to create unix work-alike that met posix compliance but free of any at&t source
AS mentioned in the above wikis ... all of these vendors were looking at higher-end platforms with higher level & more complex capability ... not running all that well on the 386 platforms competing with ms/dos and windows. a dark horse that was specially created for i86 platforms of the period was linux ... also with unix work-alike and posix characteristics. unix tended to stay on the higher-end chips while both linux&i86 were growing together becoming more and more capable.
The staple in the 90s for the growing internet-based services (some eventually growing into "cloud" service) tended to be various risc&unix based platforms ... however the linux-based i86 were starting to rapidly catch up by the end of the last century (in part because of competition from clone i86 vendors, bearing some analogy to 370 clone processors) ... with the 80s posix promise of ease of migration to better price/performance platform actually bearing fruit
some of this has been lingering on with company in utah repeatedly suing regarding whether any of these vendors are using something
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO-Linux_controversies
While there may be quibbling about current degree of compatibility between various of these platforms ... the ease of migration between these platforms has shown to be orders of magnitude better than the situation in the 60s&70s.
During much of the 90s, we were directly and/or indirectly involved with many of the parties in silicon valley ... getting to watch and/or participate in many of the growing pains. One of the scenarios were scale-up issues starting with attempting to spread ever increasing load across growing number of backend servers with DNS multiple-A records ... that then transitioned to specialized, dynamic load-balancing code in the internet facing routers.
Triva ... in the early 80s the ibm san jose disk division had a project ("DataHub") to create a pclan fileserver for the pc business market. they had a work-for-hire contract with a small company in Provo to write some code ... and somebody from San Jose was commuting nearly every week to Provo as part of the effort. At some point the IBM company decides to abandon the effort and allows the company in Provo to retain rights to the development that they were doing under the work-for-hire contract. Very shortly afterwards ... there is a pc-based fileserver being offered by a company in Provo.
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https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#9 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 07 July, 2012 Subject: Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
also Google+
https://plus.google.com/u/0/102794881687002297268/posts/Y9ubaDhTQtY
not libor ... but jpmorgan does have $70T in derivatives ... and
JPMorgan Told To Explain Withholding Energy-Probe E-Mails
http://compliancex.com/jpmorgan-told-to-explain-withholding-energy-probe-e-mails/
why stop now: The LIBOR scandal, The rotten heart of finance; A
scandal over key interest rates is about to go global
http://www.economist.com/node/21558281
LIBOR-Gate Will Take Down Many More Bankers, And The Claims Will
Spiral Into The Trillions
http://www.businessinsider.com/david-kotok-what-a-crazy-week-2012-7
other recent mention Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#4 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#10 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#11 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:44:04Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
as an aside, I found his ETO 1154th weekly status reports at NARA and imaged them. my wife's mother also wrote a large number of letters to her mother ... which were saved and I've imaged. this was thin airmail paper with writing on both sides, where even pencil has tended to "bleed" and embossed creases. I've had to do a lot of post processing. Her mother had stories about dinners with generalissimo and general's wife.
past posts mentioning 1154th status reports
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#10 OODA in highly stochastic environments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#52 An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#25 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#51 How would you succinctly desribe maneuver warfare?
repeated extract from one of the 1154th reports:
On 28 Apr we were put in D/S of the 13th Armd and 80th Inf Divs and
G/S Corps Opns. The night of the 28-29 April we cross the DANUBE River
and the next day we set-up our OP in SCHLOSS PUCHHOF (vic PUCHOFF); an
extensive structure remarkable for the depth of its carpets, the
height of its rooms, the profusion of its game, the superiority of its
plumbing and the fact that it had been owned by the original financial
backer of the NAZIS, Fritz Thyssen. Herr Thyssen was not at home.
Forward from the DANUBE the enemy had been very active, and an intact
bridge was never seen except by air reconnaissance. Maintenance of
roads and bypasses went on and 29 April we began constructing 835' of
M-2 Tdwy Br, plus a plank road approach over the ISAR River at
PLATTLING. Construction was completed at 1900 on the 30th. For the
month of April we had suffered no casualties of any kind and Die
Gotterdamerung was falling, the last days of the once mighty
WEHRMACHT.
... snip ...
engineering combat groups were guite fluid organizations, typically fluctuating from 3-6 engineering battalions and floating around between different commands.
towards the end, he was frequently ranking officer into enemy territory and had a large collection of officer dangers that were turned over in surrender ceremonies (nearly all of the ww2 stuff was stolen a few years ago).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Operating System, what is it? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 13:15:15jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
the vm370 group would ship monthly "PLC" tapes to customers, contained already built system plus the cumulative source in order to recreate the built system from scratch.
23jun69 unbundling announcement, in response to gov. & other litigation
... included starting to charge for (application) software ... however
they did manage to make the case that operating system/kernel software
should still be free. misc. past posts mentioning unbundling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
in the early 70s, the internal future system effort was started to
completely replace 360/370 ... and significantly different from 360/370.
lots of 370 activities were killed off during that period. I continued
doing 360 & then moving to 370 stuff ... while periodically ridiculing
future system. misc. past future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
some old email about finally moving from cp67 (360/67) to migrating
vm370 ... also "csc/vm" ... one of my hobbies was providing highly
enhanced/modified production systems for internal datacenters ... first
cp67 and then later vm370 ("csc/vm"):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
when FS finally crashed and burned, there was a mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 software&hardware product pipelines ... this sparse period is also credited with giving the clone processors a market foothold. in any case, the rush contributed to picking up some of I had been doing and including in vm370 release 3.
The market foothold by clone processors also contributed to changing decision and starting to charge for kernel software. A bunch of my other stuff was selected to be packaged as a separate "add-on" ... and the guinea pig for starting to charge for kernel software (I got to spend a lot of time with business people about kernel software charging policies). So there was a several year transition period where kernel was divided into the old free stuff ... and growing amount of new kernel "charged-for" stuff (until eventually the switch over to all charged for).
They wanted me to do monthly PLC release that were simultaneously with
the base PLC release ... but I refused. We negotiated until I was doing
quarterly PLC synchronized with that month's base PLC. Part of the
problem was that I was in the habit of first doing extensive regression
and performance testing before shipping anything (far in excess of
anything the base product group was doing) ... some of this described in
past posts about developing automated benchmarking and testing process:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#benchmark
If I was required to do ship monthly PLC ... I wouldn't have time to do anything else ... spending all my time with product support and testing for customer releases ... and not being able to do any of the more fun stuff.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 14:11:39blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> writes:
talks about mid-90s industry presentations about motivation for online dail-up consumer banking motivation for moving to internet (offload customer support of serial-port modems to ISPs) ... and at the same time, the online dial-up cash-management/commercial banking were saying they would *NEVER* move because of the huge number of internet security exposures (however, they eventually moved anyway) ... however, they were correct about their long list of internet security exposures.
other recent posts repeating the some theme
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#52 Banking malware a growing threat, as new variant of Zeus is detected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#61 Banking malware a growing threat, as new variant of Zeus is detected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#18 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#32 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#79 Does Two-Factor Authentication Need Fixing?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 09:47:20maus <greymausg@mail.com> writes:
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#4 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#10 Interesting News Article
reference to last decade, regulatory agencies were "three monkeys" (hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil)
BREAKING: Barclays Revealed Libor Scandal Four Years Ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-06/breaking-barclays-revealed-libor-scandal-four-years-ago.html
other recent:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#15 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
The LIBOR scandal, The rotten heart of finance; A scandal over key
interest rates is about to go global
http://www.economist.com/node/21558281
LIBOR-Gate Will Take Down Many More Bankers, And The Claims Will
Spiral Into The Trillions
http://www.businessinsider.com/david-kotok-what-a-crazy-week-2012-7
other recent posts mentioning regulatory agency three monkeys
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#54 Report: Fed Officials Joked About Housing Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#87 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#91 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#20 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#42 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#45 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#53 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#41 Lawmakers reworked financial portfolios after talks with Fed, Treasury officials
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Operating System, what is it? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:30:27jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
PLC tape was both ... full executable and build from source. customer set was somewhat bimodel ... split between those running straight "vanilla" and those with system mods (or paranoid agencies that wanted to verify that what they see is what they get).
At the time, the company had a policy if a "local" (aka branch or other) released a charge for product (up until then applications), the people responsible received the first month's lease from all customers. The month before my resource manager went out, the science center (given that it was in cambridge, a non-hdqtrs location) released "VS/Repack" (program that took traces of application instruction execution and storage references and re-ordered the program for optimal execution in virtual memory/demand paged environment) ... and the two primary people responsible got first months lease.
In the month betweene VS/Repack and my "Resource Manager" ... the science center was reclassified a hdqtrs location and no longer eligible for any incentive. Software product pricing was still under gov. policies ... prices had to at least cover all development and support costs (divided by number of customers). The next product out after mine was going to be the "favorite son batch operating system resource manager" ... which had been done by large numbers of people and required price of $895/month. Even though my "Resource Manager" could have gone for a couple tens of dollars a month ... corporate policy wanted it to be the same price as the favorite son operating system. Mine quickly went to 1000 customers ($895,000 first month, I offered to forfeit my salary just to have that $895,000). Also because the price was set so high (to correspond with the POK favorite son batch operating system), only high-end systems signed up ... so didn't get the mass of the market with low & mid-range systems (and other higher end systems) ... which could have picked a lower price, picked up the rest of the market and actually brought in more aggregate money.
The customers had SHARE (user group organization) "waterloo" tape
(managed by university of waterloo) that had user contributed source
changes and application. There was even quite a bit of source code
changes contributed by large customer and SHARE member with
installation code "CAD", share members were assigned 3letter
installation codes ... and were also used in VMSHARE online computer
conferencing ... initially provided by TYMSHARE AUG1976 ... archived
here:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
VMSHARE history also mention waterloo
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=VMSHIST&ft=MEMO
CAD was a government agency ... but they didn't choose the agency's TLA ... but close ... folklore is that CAD was chosen because it stands for cloak-and-dagger.
In any case, after starting to charge for kernel software in late 70s (in response to market foothold by clone processors), the next step in the 80s, was "object-code-only" (aka no longer shipping source code) leading to the OCO-wars
OCO & source business
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=OCOBUS&ft=MEMO
OCO's 10th b'day
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=OCO:BDAY&ft=MEMO
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 08 July, 2012 Subject: A bit of IBM System 360 nostalgia Blog: MainframeZonere:
Melinda's history goes into other detail ... that the science center had originally wanted a 360/50 to modify ... adding hardware changes to support virtual memory ... but all the spare 360/50s were going to FAA ATC effort. So the science center had to settle for 360/40. There were some references that making the hardware changes to add virtual memory to 360/40 turned out to be a lot easier than if they had gotten a 360/50.
melinda's pages have moved from pucc to me.com ... which is now listed
as closed:
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda#VMHist
as well as "VM and the VM Community: Past, Present, and Future" (including the pdf & kindle formatted versions I supplied) ... pgs 27-32 mention cp/40 and the hardware changes for 360/40 to support virtual memory.
When standard 360/67 with virtual memory hardware support standard, became available, cp/40 morphed into cp/67.
Trivia original 360 announcement had 360/60, 360/62, and 360/70 ... all with 1microsecond access memory. Folklore I heard was that model numbers were changed with the switch-over from 1microsecond access memory to 750ns access memory
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Interesting News Article Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 15:17:45jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
this has story of cp67 crashing 27 times in single day:
https://www.multicians.org/thvv/360-67.html
from above:
It is a tribute to the CP/CMS recovery system that we could get 27
crashes in a single day; recovery was fast and automatic, on the
order of 4-5 minutes. Multics was also crashing quite often at that
time, but each crash took an hour to recover because we salvaged the
entire file system. This unfavorable comparison was one reason that the
Multics team began development of the New Storage System.
... snip ...
The way I remember it was I had added the TTY terminal support to cp67 in the 60s when I was undergraduate at the univ. I played some games with 1byte field ... since TTY lengths were limited to 80bytes. Multics was on 5th flr of 545 tech sq, science center was on the 4th flr, and the science center machine room (with 360/67 running cp67) was on 2nd flr. USL machine room running cp67 was in the tech sq building across the quad. My understanding was somebody down at Harvard got a new kind of ASCII device ... and so somebody (Tom) at USL just patched the maximum line length to 1200 bytes. This resulted in invalid length calculations and buffer overruns causing the 27 crashes (& automatic re-boot).
This is slightly different than the Multics Security Evaluation,
mentioned in these recent posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#59 A computer metaphor for systems integration
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#44 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#45 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#76 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#5 What are the implication of the ongoing cyber attacks on critical infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#44 Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
but more like this recent post about MVS having 15min MTBF (requiring
manual re-boot) when the disk engineering lab attempted to install MVS
for use with testing disks in the process of being developed (I then
offered to rewrite i/o supervisor to be bullet proof and never fail):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#13 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:41:28Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
vmshare reference to 5798-fal:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=TCPIP&ft=PROB
copy of 5798-fal release 1 mod level 2 announce in this post
(with rfc1044 support)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#43 z/OS's basis for TCP/IP
later vm370 tcp/ip was ported to mvs by simulating some of the vm370 functions on mvs.
later the communication group hired subcontractor to do tcp/ip support in vtam. he came back with tcp/ip having much better performance than lu6.2. the communication group told him that everybody know that a *correct* implementation of tcp/ip was much slower than lu6.2 ... and they were only going to pay for a *correct* implementation.
univ. of wisconsin had done wiscnet which was made available as 5798-drg circa 1984; that was replaced by 5798-fal in april1987.
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 08 July, 2012 Subject: Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers Blog: Greater IBMWhere Are Asia's Global Companies?
Note that in the 60s&70s the japan auto industry were underselling cars in the US when the import quotas were put on. In the early 80s there was article calling for 100% unearned profit on the us auto industry (washington post?). The scenario was that the quotas was suppose to reduce competition giving the us industry enormous profits that they would use to completely remake themselves. However, the industry was just pocketing the profits and continuing business as usual.
1990, the us industry had C4 taskforce to look at completely remaking themselves. they were planning on heavily leveraging technology and so invited representatives of technology vendors to participate. In the meetings they could accurately describe the competition and what they needed to be done to respond (however, with all the stakeholders, they still continued "business as usual").
One of the issues was with the import quotas, the japan automakers figured that they could sell that many luxury autos as entry autos ... so they radically changed their auto development process, cutting the elapsed time in half to develop auto from start to rolling off the line (compared to industry standard), in order to start shipping radically different autos.
At the time of the C4 taskforce, US auto industry development was still on the traditional 7-8 yrs elapsed time ... while the japan auto makers were in the process of cutting the development elapsed time in half again. The Japan auto makers were going to be able to adapt to any change in auto market conditions four times faster than their US competition.
Offline I would chide the mainframe brethren attendees how they expected to help since they were on similar development timeframe as the us auto industry.
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 08 July, 2012 Subject: This Is The Wall Street Scandal Of All Scandals Blog: Google+re:
This Is The Wall Street Scandal Of All Scandals
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-wall-street-scandal-of-all-scandals-2012-7
from above:
But the other scandal is even worse. It involves a more general
practice, starting around 2005 and continuing until -- who knows? it
might still be going on -- to rig the Libor in whatever way necessary
to assure the banks' bets on derivatives would be profitable.
.... snip ...
Note that in the too-big-to-fail money laundering scandal from the summer of 2010 ... somebody coined the term too-big-to-jail ... that with everything being done to keep the too-big-to-fail in business, they weren't going to let a little thing like money laundering for the drug cartels get in the way.
One of the observations was that at least start of the century, most of the regulatory agencies had entered 3-monkey mode (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil).
New York Times, Gretchen Morgenson Applaud British, Issue Challenge To
American Regulators Over LIBOR Scandal
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/new-york-times-gretchen-morgenson-applaud-british-issue-challenge-to-american-regulators-20120709
First, she summarizes what seems to be the mindset of American officials:
"Dirty clean" versus "clean clean" pretty much sums up Wall Street's
view of cheating. If everybody does it, nobody should be held
accountable if caught. Alas, many United States regulators and
prosecutors seem to have bought into this argument.
... snip ...
pretty much also here:
http://nypost.com/2007/03/20/cramer-reveals-a-bit-too-much/
recent posts mentioning Libor:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#76 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#85 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#87 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#92 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#94 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#4 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#10 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#15 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#19 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 09 July, 2012 Subject: Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ? Blog: Mainframe Expertsre:
Trivia: SVS was basically MVT laid out in virtual address space. SVS->MVS gave each application and subsystem its own 16mbyte virtual address space with image of MVS kernel taking up half that 16mbyte. os/360 genre is extensively pointer passing API ... so for application->subsystem (in different address spaces), common segment in every virtual address space was created. By 3033, larger installations were facing the prospect of common segment increasing to 8mbyrte ... leaving nothing in each virtual address space for application. Somebody retrofits dual-address space to 3033 ... uptake by subsystems would allow them to access application data w/o needing common segment ... somewhat reducing pressure on common segment growth.
The person responsible for 3033 dual-address space was also heavily involved in various IBM 801/risc activity. He leaves and goes to work for HP on their risc products (I get internal ibm email asking if I'm leaving with him). Later he heads the Itanium effort ... is supposedly the 64bit server follow-on to i86 (an attempt is also made to recruit us by the executive responsible for superdome). Itanium has lots of growing pains and AMD responds with a 64bit i86 implementation also risc core with i86 instructions remapped to risc micro-ops for actual execution. Intel has to respond with something similar. Lots of the business-critical, industrial strength dataprocessing features from Itanium start migrating to 64bit i86 implementations.
The big meta-datacenters (also housing nearly all cloud services) start driving a lot of server chip requirements ... each accounting for hundreds of thousands or even millions of chips. They are already involved in assembly/manufacturing their own server blades ... claiming they have such scale, they can do it for 1/3rd the cost of buying brand name blades (their linux use can be considered analogous to assembling their own blades, they can also build their own tailored linux). They are pushing blade costs so low that power&cooling becomes larger & larger percentage of their total cost of operation. Their on-demand operation will tend to have large number of blades idle during low-load periods ... but available for on-demand during peak loads. This is big driver for chip technology to drop power use (and heat) to near zero when idle ... but be able to instantaneously ramp up.
At some point in the past there was transition from such operations looking at capturing mainframe dataprocessing ... to mainframes now trying to figure out how they can play in such markets; mega-datacenter, cloud services being major consumer of technology .... by comparison, traditional corporate commerical dataprocessing becoming smaller and smaller part of the computing market.
recent posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#1 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#2 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#9 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#12 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#13 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#14 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:25:19Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
other recent posts mentioning dual-address space &/or common segment:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#66 M68k add to memory is not a mistake any more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#100 5 Byte Device Addresses?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#80 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#57 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#53 Operating System, what is it?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 09 July, 2012 Subject: Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers Blog: Greater IBMre:
From the "Annals of Unintended Consequences" ... the call for 100% unearned profit tax was not only did import quotas reduce competition allowing US automakers to rapidly increase their prices leading to huge profits (that were suppose to go to completely remaking themselves) ... but the Japan change in product mix from low-end to high-end ... further reduced any downward price pressure ... and their move to high-end had additional stimulus for raising price of US products (resulting in US makers even rolling in more money that never got to the original intended purpose ... to completely remake themselves). The combination was claimed that it allowed US makers to effectively double their price over a short period of time (but continuing business as usual and no measurable change in product).
The Japanese auto makers at least offered something additional ... and it was motivated by having the import quota fixed cap placed on the number of cars. There is no corresponding justification for what went on in the US auto industry.
There was an issue circa 1990 which they acknowledge was prodding US automakers to improve reliability. Doubling the price required moving from 2-3yr loans to 5-6yr loans. US autos now weren't lasting as long as the loans. Initial response wasn't any particular quality improvement but extending the warranties to be comparable to duration of typical loan. Repair costs covered by warranties then was starting to impact bottom line ... which was then motivation to start improving quality ... not just that foreign competition had so much better quality.
US auto industry also restructured business so that auto manufacturing showed almost no profit and nearly all the profit coming from selling auto loans. GLBA (bank modernization act) is better known now for repeal of Glass-Steagall ... but at the time, the rhetoric on the floor of congress was that the primary purpose of the bill was to prevent federal bank charters being granted to m'soft and walmart. However, in the bowels of legislation there was loophole exempting existing Utah ILCs ... somebody buying an existing Utah ILC could do banking in all states (w/o requiring a federal bank charter).
You saw the auto companies buying UTAH ILCs ... so they could do their own auto loans in all 50 states (w/o coming under federal reserve jurisdiction). However in 2004 when Walmart was going to buy a UTAH ILC ... so it could become its own acquiring bank (electronic payment transaction interchange fees are split between the acquiring financial institution and the issuing financial institution) there was big publicity campaign rallying community banks against it. The issue was Walmart accounts for around 30% of transactions in the country and possibly 10% (or more) of the bottom line of its too-big-to-fail merchant acquiring institution. Walmart becoming its own acquiring financial institution would have no effect on community banks (which makes the publicity campaign dubious) ... but it would have had big impact on its too-big-to-fail merchant acquiring institution.
Big part of the economic mess was (mostly) unregulated
(non-depository) loan originators (no deposits, no FDIC regulation)
... being able to "buy" triple-A ratings on mortgages packaged as
toxic CDOs. (even when the rating agencies knew they weren't worth
triple-A). this allowed the (mortgage) triple-A rated toxic CDOs to be
sold off to institutions that were restricted to dealing in only
triple-A .... $27T done during the economic mess
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
Triple-A rating trumps everything else ... so loan originators no
longer had to care about borrowers' qualifications and/or loan quality
("liars loans" ... no-documentation, no down, etc)
Those doing auto loans were also able to ride the coat tails ... forbes article about wallstreet attempting to punish somebody that brought the issue up early in this century.
The Man Who Beat The Shorts
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1117/114.html
from above:
Watsa's only sin was in being a little too early with his prediction
that the era of credit expansion would end badly. This is what he said
in Fairfax's 2003 annual report: "It seems to us that securitization
eliminates the incentive for the originator of [a] loan to be credit
sensitive. Prior to securitization, the dealer would be very concerned
about who was given credit to buy an automobile. With securitization,
the dealer (almost) does not care."
... snip ...
quite a bit more topic drift ... end of 2008, just the four largest
too-big-to-fail were still carrying $5.2T of triple-A toxic CDOs off
balance (each with at least $1T). This was supposedly what TARP was
for ... but with only $700B appropriated ... it wouldn't have made a
dent ... so they had to find other uses for TARP. Earlier in fall of
2008, a few tens of billions had gone for 22cents on the dollar. If
those four (and the others) were forced to bring the off-balance
triple-A rated toxic CDOs onto the balance sheet, they would have been
declared insolvent and force to be liquidated.
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
They eventually had to come up with other mechanisms to try and deal with the enormous amount of off-balance triple-A rated toxic CDOs
Walmart has several hundred stores with (traditional) bank branches .... (similar to various large grocery stores) ... however, one of the major reasons for the "unbanked" population is the high margins for traditional banking ... to fully address the problem would require significantly reducing the cost of traditional banking. The solution requires some innovation and would be quite disruptive to existing large financial institutions.
recent posts mentioning C4 taskforce
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#22 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#25 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#31 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#26 Why Can't America Catch UP?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#32 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#40 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#54 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#78 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#88 Defense acquisitions are broken and no one cares
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#70 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#31 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#86 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 09 July, 2012 Subject: How smart do you need to be to be really good with Assembler? Blog: Mainframe Expertsre:
when I first wandered into bldg14 (dasd engineering development), they were doing stand-alone, dedicated, 7x24 scheduled "testcell" testing. At one point they had tried installing MVS for concurrent testing ... but found in that environment MVS had 15min MTBF (hang/crash requiring re-ipl) ... even with single testcell. I offered to rewrite i/o supervisor to provide bullet-proof, never-fail operation ... enabling on-demand, concurrent, anytime testing ... greatly improving disk development productivity. I then wrote internal-only document describing what I had done and happen to mention MVS's 15min MTBF, and brought done the wrath of the MVS group on my head. I was told (unofficially) that I would never get any sort of promotion/award requiring corporate level concurrence since they would always oppose it
part of the scenario was that in wake of FS failure (and sycophancy
and make no waves), many careers became seriously oriented towards
"managing information up the chain" Ferguson & Morris, "Computer Wars:
The Post-IBM World", Time Books, 1993:
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy and make no
waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived in
the shadow of defeat
... snip ...
another quote from the book:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
past posts mentioning future system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
past posts mentioning getting to play disk engineer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 10 July, 2012 Subject: Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ? Blog: Mainframe Expertsre:
Similar to the big cloud services using linux ... because they have full source and can build/tailor from scratch (in much the same way they've been building their own blades) ... the online (virtual machine based) service providers had full source that they could build/modify cp67.
june-23-1969 unbundling announcement, in response to gov. & other
litigation ... included starting to charge for (application) software
... however they did manage to make the case that operating
system/kernel software should still be free. misc. past posts
mentioning unbundling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
in the early 70s, the internal future system effort was started to
completely replace 360/370 ... and significantly different from
360/370. lots of 370 activities were killed off during that period. I
continued doing 360 & then moving to 370 stuff ... and periodically
ridiculing future system. misc. past future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
some old email about finally moving from cp67 (360/67) to migrating
vm370 ... also "csc/vm" ... one of my hobbies was providing highly
enhanced/modified production systems for internal datacenters
... first cp67 and then later vm370 ("csc/vm"):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212 .
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102 .
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430 .
when FS finally crashed and burned, there was a mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 software&hardware product pipelines ... this sparse period is also credited with giving the clone processors a market foothold. in any case, the rush contributed to picking up some of stuff I had been doing and including in vm370 release 3.
The market foothold by clone processors also contributed to changing decision and starting to charge for kernel software. A bunch of my other stuff was selected to be packaged as a separate "add-on" ... and the guinea pig for starting to charge for kernel software (I got to spend a lot of time with business people about kernel software charging policies). So there was a several year transition period where kernel was divided into the old free stuff ... and growing amount of new kernel "charged-for" stuff (until eventually the switch over to all charged for).
one of the online service providers was TYMSHARE which provided their
online computer conferencing for free to SHARE as VMSHARE staring in
aug1976 ... archived here
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
In any case, after starting to charge for kernel software in late 70s (in response to market foothold by clone processors), the next step in the 80s, was "object-code-only" (aka no longer shipping source code) leading to the OCO-wars
OCO & source business
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=OCOBUS&ft=MEMO
OCO's 10th b'day
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=OCO:BDAY&ft=MEMO
footnote ... major motivation for future system effort was to provide such a complex and highly integrated environment it would significantly raise the barrier to clone controllers (besides being completely different from 370). As undergraduate in the 60s, I added tty/ascii support to cp67. As part of that, I tried to get the IBM terminal controller to do something it couldn't quite do. This was motivation for the univ. to start a clone controller effort; take Interdata/3, program it to emulate IBM's controller (but also doing the stuff I wanted to do), reverse engineer channel interface and build channel interface board for Interdata/3. Four of us get written for being responsible for (some part of) clone controller business.
past posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#11 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#15 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#25 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#84 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#88 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#89 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#95 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#1 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#2 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#9 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#12 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#13 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#14 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#26 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 10 July, 2012 Subject: How smart do you need to be to be really good with Assembler? Blog: Mainframe Expertsre:
There is a little x-over in this recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#30
in this (mainframe expert) discussion about mainframe/cloud
http://lnkd.in/QhQ73A
about transition from free software, to charging for software to the OCO-wars and these old discussions from VMSHARE archive:
OCO & source business
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=OCOBUS&ft=MEMO
OCO's 10th b'day
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=OCO:BDAY&ft=MEMO
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 10 July, 2012 Subject: Microsoft's Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant Blog: Greater IBMMicrosoft's Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant
A little topic drift in this recent article:
Hire Introverts
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/hire-introverts/9041/
from above:
Introverts are also comfortable with solitude -- a crucial spur to
creativity. When the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory
Feist studied the lives of the most-creative people across a variety
of fields, they almost always found visionaries who were introverted
enough to spend large chunks of time alone.
... snip ...
which is similar to the theme of this book:
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-Talking-ebook/dp/B004J4WNL2
which includes comment that US has suffered from the rise of the "cult of personality" during the last century ... at the expense of "character" (and morals)
recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#29
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#31
in this (Mainframe Experts) discussion
http://lnkd.in/wS8SYb
mentioning this reference to the disastrous effects that the FS
failures had on the IBM culture, Ferguson & Morris, "Computer Wars:
The Post-IBM World", Time Books, 1993:
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy and make no
waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived in
the shadow of defeat
... snip ...
another quote from the book:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
I had sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM, one of his themes was To Be
or To Do
"There are two career paths in front of you, and you have to choose
which path you will follow. One path leads to promotions, titles, and
positions of distinction.... The other path leads to doing things that
are truly significant for the Air Force, but the rewards will quite
often be a kick in the stomach because you may have to cross swords
with the party line on occasion. You can't go down both paths, you
have to choose. Do you want to be a man of distinction or do you want
to do things that really influence the shape of the Air Force? To be
or to do, that is the question." Colonel John R. Boyd, USAF 1927-1997
From the dedication of Boyd Hall, United States Air Force Weapons
School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 17 September 1999
... snip ...
and most recent item from To Be or To Do blog which has "A quick
checklist that may help you assess the health of your culture and
attitude towards excellence"
http://tobeortodo.com/2012/07/11/questions-to-consider-when-reflecting-on-your-organizations-culture/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is VAX decoding really that bad. Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:22:22Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> writes:
43xx machines saw similar volumes in small number unit sales ... big difference between 43xx & vax numbers were large multi-hundred corporate orders of 43xx ... sort of leading edge of distributed computing tsunami.
ibm 4361&4381 (follow-on to 4331&4341) were expected to see continued huge growth in sales ... but it never happened ... by that time, the mid-range was starting to move to workstations & large PCs (can be seen in the last couple yrs of vax numbers).
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 10 July, 2012 Subject: Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ? Blog: Mainframe Expertsre:
specint as of 3july2012
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/cint2006.html
some number of e5-2600 benchmarks by various vendors ... including
dell e5-2690 54.9/59.2 (base/peak)
two chips, 8cores/chip 16cores
only power benchmark
ibm power 780 29.3/44 (base/peak)
power 780, 4 (power7) chips, 4cores/chip, 16 cores
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/780/
this wiki has bladecenter ps702 relative comparable to power 780
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER7
bladecenter ps702
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/servers/ps700series/configs/840671yaa2.html
the above mentions $16,544 list price
.... that is compared to ibm's base price of $1815 for a e5-2600 blade (nearly 1/10th the price for faster more efficient blade, major cloud vendors are doing their own manufacturing for possibly 1/3rd the cost of brand name blades)
As previously mentioned, i86 vendors have converted over to risc for i86 execution with hardware layer that converts i86 instructions to risc micro-ops for execution.
Note what really created cloud is the big cloud vendors with their mega-datacenters with millions of chips&components chosen for optimal cost/performance ... they assemble their own blades as well as build their own operating systems from open source (further pushing optimal total cost of ownership). Effectively everybody else is trying to ride the coat-tails ... especially those that don't have open hardware and/or open operating systems, and will even try to obfuscate the issues.
The major cloud vendors done detailed studies like life-time defect
for various hard disks and published the results, old 2007 post in ibm
mainframe mailing list
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#13
Hard disk test 'surprises' Google
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6376021.stm
Google Releases Paper on Disk Reliability
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/02/18/0420247.shtml
as well as optimal datacenter design & operation, from old 2008 post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#79
Google Data Centers 'The Most Efficient In The World'
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209600041
from above:
Teetzel explained that while all data centers use water for cooling,
Google-designed data centers don't use water for chillers, which are a
kind of air conditioner. Instead, Google uses cooling towers, which
just let the water evaporate without using any power.
... snip ...
note that while there is a generation (or more) between the E5-2600 and its precursor from the time of the POWER7 introduction ... there is the only POWER listed in the SPECINT ... the are hundreds of i86 benchmarks listed ... but only a single POWER ... so it is the only thing that can be compared. Possibly whenever a POWER8 might come out and be benchmarked ... i86 may have also cycled an additional generation (playing the generation card is only really valid when there is cherry-picking generations for comparison ... doesn't really apply if it is the only thing available)
From the cloud vendor standpoint the POWER7 price/BIP, electricity/BIP and heat/BIP ... would compare unfavorably even with the precursor to E5-2600.
past posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#11 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#15 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#25 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#84 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#88 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#89 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#95 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#1 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#2 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#9 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#12 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#13 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#14 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#26 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#30 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The Conceptual ATM program. Newsgroups: sci.crypt Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:16:09Peter Fairbrother <zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk> writes:
the chip was doing static data authentication with the terminal ...
which resulted in the rise of the (counterfeit) Yes Card ... i.e.
compromise terminal to harvest static authentication chip data
(effectively the same technology used to harvest static magstripe data)
for creation of counterfeit card. Once the terminal authenticates the
chipcard, the counterfeit card is programmed to answer "YES" to the
three terminal questions 1) is the correct PIN entered ("YES"), 2)
should the transaction be done offline ("YES") and 3) is the transaction
with the card limit ("YES"). Decade old Cartes 2002 trip report,
including mention of presentation on the Yes Card
https://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
The following year at the "ATM Integrity Taskforce" meetings there was a LEO presentation on the YES CARD and occurances around the world; somebody in the audience made the comment that "they've managed to spend billions of dollars to prove that chips are less secure than magstripe". The issue is that the harvest of the static authentication for chip & magstripe is comparable ... however the countermeasure for counterfeit magstripe card is to deactivate the account number (not allowing online transaction to go through), which doesn't work with the counterfeit YES CARD ... since the YES CARD forces the terminal to do offline transaction.
past posts mentioning YES CARD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 12 July, 2012 Subject: UH-OH: $220 Million May Be Missing From Brokerage Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityalmost small peanuts with all the other news
UH-OH: $220 Million May Be Missing From Brokerage
http://www.businessinsider.com/220-million-missing-in-customer-funds-missing-from-fund-owned-by-iowa-ceo-who-attempted-suicide-2012-7?goback=.gmp_127198.amf_127198_23807530.gde_127198_member_132520358
dare one say the 3-monkey regulatory paradigm:
Firm With Money At Collapsed Brokerage PFG Launches Blistering Attack
On Failure Of Regulators
http://www.businessinsider.com/firm-with-money-at-collapsed-brokerage-pfg-launches-blistering-attack-on-failure-of-regulators-2012-7
... more of the testimony by the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff. note it was congress that passed the law that said CFTC couldn't regulate derivatives.
Financial Executives Confess: Sure, We Lie and Cheat
http://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2012/07/10/financial-executives-sure-we-lie-and-cheat/
The Regulation Of The Banking Industry Appears A Farce
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2012/07/10/the-regulation-of-the-banking-industry-appears-a-farce/
Business news this morning are making sounds like repeat of Sarbanes-Oxley and Enron/Worldcom .... however, while Sarbanes-Oxley was suppose to prevent such stuff from ever happening again ... it did require that the regulatory agencies do something. Apparently even GAO didn't think that regulatory agencies were doing anything and started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings ... even showing uptic after SOX (recently seen on internet: "Enron was a dry run and it worked so well it has become institutionalized"). Enron involved both SEC and CFTC as well as help from congress and other parties.
CEO Of Collapsed Brokerage Forged Signatures And Fabricated Bank
Balances
http://www.businessinsider.com/reuters-ceo-of-collapsed-brokerage-forged-signatures-and-fabricated-bank-balances-2012-7
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 12 July, 2012 Subject: Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityExclusive: Barclays insider lifts lid on bank's toxic culture; Whistleblower: bosses 'would have known' what the traders were doing
sure sounds like they did
BREAKING: Barclays Revealed Libor Scandal Four Years Ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-06/breaking-barclays-revealed-libor-scandal-four-years-ago.html
I've periodically made reference that the regulatory agencies played
"three monkeys" last decade (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no
evil).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys
How to screw LIBOR and alienate people; Dominic Connor presents
another tutorial in Rogue Trading
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/10/pushing_libor/
Up to 14 U.K. banks tied to Libor scandal:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/up-to-14-uk-banks-tied-to-libor-scandal-report-2012-07-09
A scandal over rate-fixing is about to hit the US
http://marketday.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/11/12684779-a-scandal-over-rate-fixing-is-about-to-hit-the-us
The Market Has Spoken, and It Is Rigged
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/the-market-has-spoken-and-it-is-rigged/
Graphic: Largest Financial Scam in History -- Libor, Wall Street, the
Federal Reserve & You
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2012/07/graphic-largest-financial-scam-in-history-libor-goldman-sachs-you/
Gaol time for banks
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NG11Dj02.html
Diamond Accused of Lying After FSA Releases Letter
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-10/diamond-to-receive-about-2-million-pounds-on-leaving-barclays.html
Barclays: The eagle has floundered
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/07/barclays
In 2007, New York Fed was told about problems with Libor
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-2007-new-york-fed-was-told-about-problems-with-libor/2012/07/10/gJQA4dJebW_story.html
past posts in this thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#76 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#85 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#87 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#92 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#94 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#15 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The Conceptual ATM program. Newsgroups: sci.crypt Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:11:20re:
in the time-frame of the cartes2002 presentation on Yes Card there was a large chip&pin pilot deployment in the US. The YES CARD exploit was explained to the people doing the pilot ... who we extremely card centric (and almost solely lost/stolen card focused) ... and they said that they would change the deployed, valid cards to always go online. The problem was that there wasn't direct attack on valid cards ... it was attack on terminals to harvest valid card authentication information (basically same attack used to skim magstripe card information). Then the counterfeit yes cards were programmed to never go online ... the supposed countermeasure to have valid cards always go online ... had no affect on the counterfeit yes cards.
it any case, not long after the yes card exploit became better known,
the large pilot appeared to disappear leaving no trace. the failure of
that large pilot then possibly contributed to resistance to trying it
again in the US until the technology had significantly changed and
proven elsewhere. past posts mentioning yes card
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
there is reference to one of my old postings here .... in return for
helping with some stuff, Los Gatots lab let me have part of a wing and
some labs ... it wasn't until shortly after the 3624 moved ... but
many of the people that had worked on it, were still at the lab.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3624
above references 3624 PIN security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number
Los gatos lab early on also did the management of the magnetic
stripe standards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_stripe_card
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:58:09Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
one of the other things done was that they started building manufacturing plants (get aroound quota restrictions) ... a comment from that period was that they needed to require junior college degree in order to get workers with highschool education. reference was that even to get somebody with US highschool level education required US junior college degree ... because so many US highschools were just handing out degrees to students that didn't actually receive education.
we've had a.f.c. discussions in the past about states requiring proficiency tests in order to receive highschool degree ... and then postponing effective date ... even when the highschool graduation proficiency tests only involved being able to do 7th grade level math & reading (worried that requiring 7th grade proficiency for 12th grade graduation would result in large percentage not getting diploma).
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 12 July, 2012 Subject: A whistleblower emerges from the shadows Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityA whistleblower emerges from the shadows
from above:
For nearly three years, as Kyle Lagow struggled to find work and his
finances crumbled, he kept a secret from nearly everyone he knew,
including his wife: He was a whistleblower.
... snip ...
are we talking about the same thing?
Foreclosure settlement a failure of law, a triumph for bank attorneys
http://www.washingtonpost.com/foreclosure-settlement-a-failure-of-law-a-triumph-for-bank-attorneys/2012/02/23/gIQAe7feaR_story.html
Georgia To Spend $100 Million Meant For Helping Homeowners On Corporate Giveaways Instead
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/06/18/501186/georgia-foreclosure-settlement-corporate/
Ask the mineshaft: what's gone wrong with America? The decay spreads faster than I imagined possible.
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/36115/
The Foreclosure-to-Rental Boondoggle
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/02/the-foreclosure-to-rental-boondoggle/
misc. past posts mentioning above:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#10 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#25 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#13 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 14 July, 2012 Subject: Are you creative? Blog: Greater IBMIBM Creatives
cross-over post from "Microsoft downfall" discussion:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#32 Microsoft's Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant
A little topic drift in this recent article:
Hire Introverts
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/hire-introverts/9041/
from above:
Introverts are also comfortable with solitude -- a crucial spur to
creativity. When the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory
Feist studied the lives of the most-creative people across a variety
of fields, they almost always found visionaries who were introverted
enough to spend large chunks of time alone.
... snip ...
which is similar to the theme of this book:
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-Talking-ebook/dp/B004J4WNL2
which includes comment that US has suffered from the rise of the "cult of personality" during the last century ... at the expense of "character" (and morals)
As an undergraduate in the 60s, I created dynamic adaptive resource
management for CP67. Later in the transition from cp67 to vm370, there
was a lot of simplification by the development group and much of the
CP67 stuff I had done got dropped. During the Future System period, I
continued to work on CP67 (and periodically ridicule FS efforts) and
then moved a lot of stuff to VM370. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
When FS failed, there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370
product pipelines .... contributing to decision to release various
pieces of stuff that I had been doing. past posts mentioning FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
One of the pieces was to be released as the "Resource Manager" (and
guinea pig for starting to charge for kernel software). misc. past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
A corporate review pointed out that I had to add a lot of manual tuning parameters before it would be approved for release ("since the state-of-the-art was lots of manual tuning parameters", the POK favorite son batch operating system had enormous numbers of manual tuning parameters and there were presentations at SHARE about enormous numbers of benchmarks comparing random changes in those parameters). I tried to point out that my undergraduate work from a decade earlier was dynamic adaptive resource management, eliminating the necessity for all those manual tuning parameters (falling on deaf ears). So I added tuning parameters, published the code, formulas and description. Decades later nobody had got the joke, the dynamic adaptive code had more degrees of freedom than the manual tuning parameters ... any manual change could be compensated for by the dynamic adaptive code.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:58:46greymausg writes:
at least one person in congress investigating recent lack of sharing was major figure from the prior era putting up the walls preventing sharing (contributing to congress not taking any responsibility ... possibly one of those laws of unintended consequences)
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 15 July, 2012 Subject: A lesson from history about wasted valor, for which a price might be asked of us Blog: Boyd Strategyre:
A lesson from history about wasted valor, for which a price might be
asked of us
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/40506/
Boyd side-track:
When he took command in May 1968, much of the 3d Marine Division was
tied down to combat bases, places like Vandegrift and Camp
Carroll. They were part of the "McNamara Line" conceived to shut down
enemy use of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. And according to Davis this simply
wasn't working.
... snip ...
Boyd would mention spook-base/NKP in his organic design for command and control briefings, pg28: "My use of 'legal eagle' and comptroller at NKP"
as well as claiming that it wouldn't work, even before taking command.
Coram's mentions Boyd's tour at spook-base ... as well as it being a "$2.5B windfall" for IBM (over $17B in today's dollars)
NKP/spook base, gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
from above:
Records indicate that when the program closed, QU-22 'Quackers' never
flew operationally as pilotless drones as initially programmed.
Reliable eyewitness accounts indicate that they were seen flying
pilotless on occasion, but other information indicates that the
Commander at NKP issued a standing order that none were to be flown
operationally without a pilot.
... snip ...
doesn't say whether or not it was Boyd.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 10:32:00Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
however, hyperthreading and multiple cores ... actually has concurrent asynchronous execution with little or no sequential consistency.
parallel programming has been holy grail for quite some type ... since so few programmers manage to do it well with current tools/languages
past post on the subject:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#42 Panic in Multicore Land
references this
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/01/mundie_mundie/
from above:
During a speech last June, Intel SVP Pat Gelsinger said the following:
"A couple of years ago, I had a discussion with Bill Gates (about the
multi-core products). He was just in disbelief. He said, 'We can't write
software to keep up with that.'"
Gates ordered the Intel executive to keep pumping out faster product
"No, Bill, it's not going to work that way," Gelsinger informed him.
... snip ...
misc. other posts mentioning looking for parallel programming holy grail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#15 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#34 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#19 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#44 Are multicore processors driving application developers to explore multithreaded programming options?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#63 Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#72 Transactional Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#26 What is the biggest IT myth of all time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#9 Age
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#8 No command, and control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#21 Eurofighter v F16
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#35 Having left IBM, seem to be reminded that IBM is not the same IBM I had joined
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#122 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#57 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#15 Why do people say "the soda loop is often depicted as a simple loop"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#36 Time to competency for new software language?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:00:00re:
Charlie had invented compare&swap instruction while working on cp67
fine-grain multiprocessing locking (compare&swap chosen because CAS
are charlie's initials) ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
at the science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
an attempt was made to get it into the (ibm mainframe) 370 architecture. "owners" of the 370 architecture rebuffed the effort saying that the 360 "test&set" multiprocessor locking instruction was more than adequate. If compare&swap were to be added to 370, had to come up with uses that weren't specific to multiprocessor operation.
thus was born the examples (still in ibm mainframe principles of operation) of use of the instruction by multi-threaded applications
scenario operations are one or more storage fetches, operate and the values and store them back. in multi-threaded applications ... even on single processor ... interrupt could occur between the fetch and store and as part of interrupt processing, identical sequence could be executed by a different thread. when the original interrupted thread is resumed, values would be stored that didn't reflect what happened as part of the interrupt processing. something similar could happen if two threads were running concurrently on different processors. typical solution was to perform a kernel call where operation would be performed where interrupts were disabled.
compare&swap performed an atomic operation (not interruptable) that only did a store operation if compared value had not changed. simple example is count increment, load a five, add one ... and compare&swap ... which will only store the six if the current value is still five. another is push/pop list. load the pointer of the top of the list, load the following pointer from the first item, and compare&swap ... only store the following pointer if the top of the list is still pointing to the first pointer.
financial database transactions get somewhat more complex ... since the data has to come off disk, be updated and written back to disk in consistent manner ... aka two independent tasks attempting to debit the same account concurrently.
at berkeley event celebrating jim gray ... he was credited with
formalizing semantics for financial data transactions ... significantly
improving their integrity and increasing the trust that auditors could
have in dataprocessing financial records. past posts mentioning
celebration for jim:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#32 A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#36 A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#27 Father Of Financial Dataprocessing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#78 ATMs by the Numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#51 8 ways the American information worker remains a Luddite
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#4 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#13 Is the ATM still the banking industry's single greatest innovation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#21 Mainframe Hall of Fame (MHOF)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#85 Hashing for DISTINCT or GROUP BY in SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#80 Which building at Berkeley?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#32 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Word Length Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:45:44"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> writes:
from above:
Dhrystone tries to represent the result more meaningfully than MIPS
(million instructions per second) because instruction count comparisons
between different instruction sets (e.g. RISC vs. CISC) can confound
simple comparisons. For example, the same high-level task may require
many more instructions on a RISC machine, but might execute faster than
a single CISC instruction. Thus, the Dhrystone score counts only the
number of program iteration completions per second, allowing individual
machines to perform this calculation in a machine-specific way. Another
common representation of the Dhrystone benchmark is the DMIPS (Dhrystone
MIPS) obtained when the Dhrystone score is divided by 1757 (the number
of Dhrystones per second obtained on the VAX 11/780, nominally a 1 MIPS
machine).
... snip ...
recent e5-2600 (parallel) dhrystone benchmarks rate it at 527BIPS
(527,000 MIPS) ... i.e. running 527,000 times faster than 11/780
... other numbers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second
these old Dhrystone results
https://web.archive.org/web/20170902130634/http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Techdoc/Bench/dhryst.txt
has 11/780 at 1417/1441, 1428/1470, 1526/1523, 1650/1640
and 11/785 at 1783/1813, 2063/2069, 2090/2084
just for the fun of it & topic drift ... recent post in comp.arch about
4341 and vax selling into same mid-range market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#33 Is VAX decoding really that bad
references old post about decade of vax sales, sliced & diced in
various ways
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0
old Dhrystone benchmark has 4341-12 as 3690/3690, 3910/910
old email mentioning 4300s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
more old Dhrystone results
http://www.anonymous-insider.net/unix/research/1985/1213.html
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 15 Jul 2012 10:19:10scott_j_ford@YAHOO.COM (Scott Ford) writes:
several of the participants were involved in privacy issues and had done extensive surveys. the #1 issue from the surveys, was identity theft, primarily the form involving account fraud (fraudulent financial transactions) primarily as result of data breaches. There seemed to be little or nothing being done about the problem and there was some hope that the publicity from the notifications would motivate countermeasures. The issue was security measures are usually taken for self-protection, the problem was that the institutions with the data breaches had little at risk ... it was their clients/customers that were suffering the fraud ... and so they had no motivation to take corrective action. Since then the proposed federal legislation has been about evenly divided between requirements similar to the original cal. bill and those that eliminates most requirements for notifications (sometimes disguised by requiring that breach involve multiple different kinds of personal information that doesn't occur in the real world).
The same organizations were in the process of doing a Cal. "opt-in" privacy bill (institutions can only share personal information when authorized by individual). GLBA is better known for repeal of Glass-Steagall. However the rhetoric on the floor of congress was that the primary purpose of GLBA was to allow those with bank charters to keep them, but prevent anybody else from getting bank charters (eliminate competition). However, another provision in GLBA was "opt-out" privacy sharing (institutions can share personal information unless they have record of individual objecting; federal preemption of state laws). At 2004 annual privacy conference in DC during panel with FTC commissioners, an individual asked from the floor if the FTC was going to do anything about "opt-out". They said they were involved with most of the major financial call-centers and none of the "opt-out" call lines were equipped to record any information from "opt-out" calls (so the institutions could claim they could share since there was no record of objections).
The major motivation for cyberattacks and breaches has been being able to use stolen account info for fraudulent financial transactions. A problem is the business process is severely misaligned.
The value of the information to the merchant is profit on the transaction (possibly couple dollars; for transaction processor possibly a few cents). The value of the information to the crook is the account balance and/or credit limit. As a result the attackers may be able to outspend by a factor of 100 times (what the defenders can afford to spend on security measures).
The account information is also required in dozens of business processes at millions of locations on the planet. At the same time the threat of fraudulent transactions requires that the account information is kept confidential and never divulged. We've claimed that with the diametrically opposing requirements, even if the planet was buried under miles of information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't be able to stop information leakage.
In the past, the merchants have been told that a large part of the interchange fee (value subtracted from amount received by merchants) has been tightly tied to the respective fraud rates ... resulting in studies that financial infrastructure makes a large profit from fraudulent transactions ... eliminating any motivation to change the paradigm and correctly align the business process (to eliminate fraud). Futhermore, crooks would likely move attacks to the next lowest hanging part of the financial infrastructure (which doesn't involve merchants; no justification to charge hefty profit fee whenever there are fraudulent losses).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The dbdebunk revival Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:47:17paul c <toledobythesea@oohay.ac> writes:
It was EAGLE (IMS follow-on) that was going to be the grand & glorious ... folklore is that with the whole corporation focused on EAGLE ... that it was possible to do the system/r technology transfer from bldg. 28 to endicott ... to get out SQL/DS.
It wasn't until EAGLE implodes that they asked how fast could there be a
port to MVS ... for eventually release as DB2 (announced for decision
support). mentions system/r, sql/ds & eagle
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-SQL_DS.html
more mention of eagle
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-DB2.html
above mentions baker ... who would say that he did the majority of sql/ds tech transfer from endicott back to stl (for db2).
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 15 July, 2012 Subject: Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityNYT: Prosecutors Are Building Criminal Charges In LIBOR-Rigging Scandal
past posts in this thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#76 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#85 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#87 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#92 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#94 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#15 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#37 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 15 July, 2012 Subject: The Games Played By JP Morgan Chase Blog: Google+re:
The Games Played By JP Morgan Chase
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2012/07/14/the-games-played-by-jp-morgan-chase/
at the time Congress was working on passing Sarbanes-Oxley, the claim was that if a CEO signed a financial statement that turned out to be wrong (including all those that later needing restatement), he would go to jail. jokes at the time, was that it would just provide extra business for the audit companies and nothing would change. GAO has done reports of large numbers of fraudulent financial statements and nothing has happened to the CEOs (I guess nobody in congress really expected that SEC would do anything)
recent posts mentioning Dimon/Chase
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#9 JPM LOSES $2 BILLION USD!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#12 JPM LOSES $2 BILLION USD!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#61 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#82 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#87 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#5 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#45 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#58 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#64 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#79 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#17 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#25 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#29 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
recent posts mentioning Sarbanes-Oxley and/or gao reports:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#1 The war on terabytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#18 SEC v. Citigroup, How to Avoid (Greater) Disaster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#26 What's your favorite quote on "accountability"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#70 Regulatory Agency logo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#19 "Buffett Tax" and truth in numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#44 What's the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#53 Can America Lead the World's Fight Against Corruption?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#54 The New Age Bounty Hunger -- Showdown at the SEC Corral
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#87 The Benefit and The Burden
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#0 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#13 Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#25 Goldman Sachs P.R. Chief's Accidental Exit Interview
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#31 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#37 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#45 Fannie, Freddie Charge Taxpayers For Legal Bills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#54 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#5 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#10 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#12 Gordon Gekko Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#16 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#39 Fannie and Freddie must go - here's how
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#30 Senators Who Voted Against Ending Big Oil Tax Breaks Received Millions From Big Oil
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#57 speculation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#66 Predator GE: We Bring Bad Things to Life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#74 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#84 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#87 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#91 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#6 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#20 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#59 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#67 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#78 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#42 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#41 Lawmakers reworked financial portfolios after talks with Fed, Treasury officials
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#91 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#36 UH-OH: $220 Million May Be Missing From Brokerage
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 15 July, 2012 Subject: Visa, MasterCard in $6B antitrust settlement, largest in U.S. history Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityVisa, MasterCard in $6B antitrust settlement, largest in U.S. history
Visa and Mastercard make $7.25bn fees dispute settlement credit card;
The dispute between credit card companies and retailers has been going
on for seven years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18839293
TV business news commentator just now said that the associations would raise the fees charge merchants by amount equal to (or more) what that they would be paying in the settlement (potentially even profiting from the settlement, law of unintended consequences?)
Card Pact's Foes Arm for Battle
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303612804577529264101068238.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The dbdebunk revival Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:47:28paul c <toledobythesea@oohay.ac> writes:
there were some other issues that came into play with marketing.
IMS started out on OS/360 batch MVT platform ... which evolves into the (batch) MVS platform
system/r had been done on the virtual machine vm/370 platform ... and
the MVS organization was involved in all sorts of internal politics
... including repeatedly trying to have the vm/370 product killed off.
misc. past posts mentioning system/r
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
I've commented that part of the issue was that in the wake of the
"Future System" failure ... the culture of the corporation significantly
changed ... with lots of people operating their careers with managing
information up the chain. Ferguson & Morris, "Computer Wars:
The Post-IBM World", Time Books, 1993:
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy and make no
waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived in
the shadow of defeat
... snip ...
another quote from the book:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
misc. past posts mentioning future system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
one of the things they (also) let me do was play disk engineer in the
disk development engineering lab. when I first wandered in, they were
scheduling development disk testing dedicated, "stand-alone", 7x24
around the clock. At one point they had tried installing MVS in order to
do multiple, concurrent testing ... but found MVS had 15min MTBF in that
environment. I offered to rewrite i/o supervisor to make it bullet
proof and never fail (so they could do on-demand, anytime, concurrent
testing, greatly increasing disk development productivity). I wrote an
internal only paper on what was done and happened to mention MVS with
15min MTBF ... which brought the wrath of the MVS organization down on
my head. misc. past posts mentioning getting to play disk engineer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 16 Jul 2012 07:17:21timothy.sipples@US.IBM.COM (Timothy Sipples) writes:
we were doing ha/cmp cluster scale-up ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
possibly within hrs of the last email in above (end jan1992, discussion of meeting at LLNL), the scale-up was transferred, we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors, and a couple weeks later there was IBM supercomputer announcement (for scientific and numeric intensive *ONLY*) ... and we decide to leave.
this old post reference meeting early Jan1992 in Ellison's conference
room
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
two of the other people mentioned in that meeting later leave and showup at a small client/server startup (responsible for something called the "commerce server"). we get brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on their server; the startup had also invented this technology called "SSL" that they want to use.
As part of the effort we need to map the technology into business
process of payment transactions, establish the requirements for SSL use
to meet security assumptions, as well as do audits and walk thoughs of
these new business processes selling merchant domain name SSL digital
certificates (result is now frequently referred to as "electronic
commerce") ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcert
SSL was to meet two objectives 1) is the webserver that you think you are talking to actually the webserver you are talking to and 2) hide (aka encrypt) payment/sensitive information being transmitted through the internet.
For "SSL" to meet #1, the requirements are that the end-user know the relationship between the webserver they think they are talking to and the URL they type into the browser; then "SSL" establishes the relationship between the URL entered and the webserver actually talked to. Almost immediately the requirements for #1 are violated, commerce servers find that "SSL" cuts their throughput by 85-95% ... and they drop back to using "SSL" for just entering payment information (aka #2, but there no longer is assurance that the webserver that you think you are talking to is the webserver you are talking to).
You enter a non-SSL URL ... so there is little assurance that you actually are talking to that webserver. Then sometime later, you click on payment/checkout button .. which provides the SSL URL (not you) ... so it violates the first part of #1 requirement, no longer any understanding between the webserver you think you are talking to and the URL you enter (the SSL assurance devolves to the webserver you are talking to is whatever webserver that the webserver claims to be).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 16 Jul 2012 09:54:00John_Mattson@EA.EPSON.COM (John Mattson) writes:
somebody in POK sent me a copy of Corporate Directive on Passwords late
Friday and I redistributed. Over the weekend, somebody printed on 6670
(ibm copier3 with computer interface) on corporate letterhead paper and
placed it in all the building corporate bulletin boards. Monday morning
numerous people were caught ... even tho the date is clearly sunday and
no "real" corporate directives are dated sunday. Corporate password
rules from long ago and far away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#52 OT Re: A beautiful morning in AFM.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#53 April Fools Day
static, shared-secrets were somewhat acceptable for authentication 40yrs ago when a person only had a few. corporate rules were put in place to create impossible to guess (therefor impossible to remember) shared-secrets for authentication (with frequent changes) ... as if it was the only authentication the person has to deal with.
With the proliferation of static, shared-secrets paradigm as
authentication mechanism (pins, passwords, etc) ... it isn't uncommon
for an individual to have large scores or hundreds (of impossible to
remember values) ... aka the paradigm doesn't scale. Furthermore,
"safe" security practices require a unique shared-secret for
every unique security domain (as countermeasure to
cross-domain attacks). misc. past posts discussing static
shared-secret authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#secrets
misc. past posts discussing internet/network based authentication
using non-static data (countermeasure to harvesting and reply attacks)
for kerberos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#kerberos
similar discussions for radius
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#radius
... aka simple registration of public key in lieu of password ... w/o
the enormous complexity and points of failure introduced by digital
certificates and PKIs ... misc. past posts discussing non-certificate
based public key authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#certless
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 16 July, 2012 Subject: Transition to Retirement Blog: Greater IBMThe culture started eroding with failure of Future System effort .... Ferguson & Morris, "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World", Time Books, 1993:
another quote from the book:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
I was blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network
during the late 70s and early 80s (folklore is that when the executive
committee was told about online computer conferencing and internal
network, 5of6 wanted to fire me). One of the topics of "Tandem Memos"
was the disastrous effects on all US corporations with the rise of
MBAs and the pursuit quarterly results. From IBM Jargon:
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh
of breath air (sic). That's another Tandem Memos. A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and
also constructively criticized the way products were [are]
developed. The memos are required reading for anyone with a serious
interest in quality products. If you have not seen the memos, try
reading the November 1981 Datamation summary.
... snip ...
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 16 July, 2012 Subject: Failing Gracefully Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityFailing Gracefully neirajones.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/failing-gracefully.html
We've done some number of business critical dataprocessing products
... including IBM's HA/CMP (high availability / cluster
multiprocessor) product. part of this was "failing safely". misc. past
posts mentioning ha/cmp
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
and misc. past posts mentioning assurance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#assurance
I had worked with Jim Gray at research ... and he palmed off some number of things on me when he left for Tandem. He was behind formation of TPC (benchmarking). At Berkeley event celebrating Jim Gray, ... he was credited with formalizing semantics for financial data transactions (including ACID properties), ... significantly improving their integrity and increasing the trust that auditors can have in dataprocessing financial records.
We were tangentially involved in the cal. data breach notification act
(the "original" notification act) having been brought in to help
wordsmith the cal. electronic signature act. misc. past posts mentioning
electronic signature act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
several of the participants were involved in privacy issues and had done extensive surveys. the #1 issue from the surveys, was identity theft, primarily the form involving account fraud (fraudulent financial transactions) primarily as result of data breaches. There seemed to be little or nothing being done about the problem and there was some hope that the publicity from the notifications would motivate countermeasures. The issue was security measures are usually taken for self-protection, the problem was that the institutions with the data breaches had little at risk ... it was their clients/customers that were suffering the fraud ... and so they had no motivation to take corrective action. Since then the proposed federal legislation has been about evenly divided between requirements similar to the original cal. bill and those that eliminates most requirements for notifications (sometimes disguised by requiring that breach involve multiple different kinds of personal information that doesn't occur in the real world).
The same organizations were in the process of doing a Cal. "opt-in" privacy bill (institutions can only share personal information when authorized by individual). GLBA is better known for repeal of Glass-Steagall. However the rhetoric on the floor of congress was that the primary purpose of GLBA was to allow those with bank charters to keep them, but prevent anybody else from getting bank charters (eliminate competition). However, another provision in GLBA was "opt-out" privacy sharing (institutions can share personal information unless they have record of individual objecting; federal preemption of state laws). At 2004 annual privacy conference in DC during panel with FTC commissioners, an individual asked from the floor if the FTC was going to do anything about "opt-out". They said they were involved with most of the major financial call-centers and none of the "opt-out" call lines were equipped to record any information from "opt-out" calls (so the institutions could claim they could share since there was no record of objections).
The major motivation for cyberattacks and breaches has been being able to use stolen account info for fraudulent financial transactions. A problem is the business process is severely misaligned.
The value of the information to the merchant is profit on the transaction (possibly couple dollars; for transaction processor possibly a few cents). The value of the information to the crook is the account balance and/or credit limit. As a result the attackers may be able to outspend by a factor of 100 times (what the defenders can afford to spend on security measures).
The account information is also required in dozens of business processes at millions of locations on the planet. At the same time the threat of fraudulent transactions requires that the account information is kept confidential and never divulged. We've claimed that with the diametrically opposing requirements, even if the planet was buried under miles of information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't be able to stop information leakage.
misc. past posts mentioning shared-secret authentication paradigm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#secrets
misc. past posts mentioning harvesting authentication information
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#harvest
Part of the mis-aligned business process issue is that merchants have been indoctrinated for decades that big part of interchange fee for electronic transactions is related to associated fraud ... with major fraud coming as a result of account information harvested from previous transactions as a result of data breaches. In fact, it has been observed that there is significant profit for financial institutions for the fraud surtax ... which possibly is barrier to introducing paradigm change that would eliminate the fraud. The other inhibitor is that any paradigm change that would eliminate majority of fraud in consumer electronic transactions (as well as eliminating major motivation for crooks to perform data breaches) ... would have the crooks switching to the next lowest hanging fruit at financial institutions (which wouldn't have the opportunity to charge merchants for the costs+profit, needing instead to be carried solely by the financial institutions).
misc. past posts mentioning celebration for Jim Gray:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#32 A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#36 A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#27 Father Of Financial Dataprocessing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#78 ATMs by the Numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#51 8 ways the American information worker remains a Luddite
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#4 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#13 Is the ATM still the banking industry's single greatest innovation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#21 Mainframe Hall of Fame (MHOF)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#85 Hashing for DISTINCT or GROUP BY in SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#80 Which building at Berkeley?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#32 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 16 Jul 2012 14:25:59 -0700zedgarhoover@GMAIL.COM (zMan) writes:
one of the issues is whether there is better low-hanging fruit
95-96 time-period ... there were industry presentations by dial-up consumer online banking regarding motivation for moving to the internet (top of the list was enormous consumer support costs for serial-port dial-up modems ... being able to offload to ISPs). At the same time, the dial-up commerical/cash-management online banking operations were saying that they would *NEVER* move to the internet because of a long list of security vulnerabilities (nearly all of which have since been seen).
the commercial operations eventually started moving to the internet (anyway ... possibly loss of institutional knowledge in the industry) and started seeing all the vulnerabilities that had been predicted. some of this has shown up recently in court cases where business operations have lost hundreds of thousands or millions from their accounts in such attacks ... and they are suing the financial institutions for the loss on the grounds of providing inadequate security.
recent posts in (linkedin) "Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security"
discussions:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#18 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#32 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#0 Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#8 Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security
related news URL references:
Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft;
Automated attack bypasses two-factor authentication
http://www.darkreading.com/authentication/167901072/security/attacks-breaches/240002267/zeus-spyeye-automatic-transfer-module-masks-online-banking-theft
Cyber crooks evading advanced bank security to transfer funds
http://www.scmagazine.com/cyber-crooks-evading-advanced-bank-security-to-transfer-funds/article/246227/
Exclusive: Online bank-theft software grows more sophisticated
http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-online-bank-theft-software-grows-more-sophisticated-080445057--sector.html
Online bank-theft software grows more sophisticated
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-online-banktheft-software-grows-more-sophisticated-20120618,0,278609.story
Fake Android antivirus app likely linked to Zeus banking Trojan,
researchers say; Cybercriminals are distributing a mobile component of
the Zeus banking Trojan as an Android security application, Kaspersky
experts said
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/061912-fake-android-antivirus-app-likely-260331.html
Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/101712-google-turns-its-data-centers-263479.html
ENISA Warns Banks: Assume All PCs Are Infected
http://news.softpedia.com/news/ENISA-Warns-Banks-Assume-All-PCs-Are-Infected-279470.shtml
Court Slams Bank For Ignoring Zeus Attack
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212901505
Zeus: How to Fight Back; Sophisticated Trojan Demands New Game Plan
http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/interviews/zeus-how-to-fight-back-i-1592?rf=2012-07-06-eb
Cybercrooks preying on small businesses
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/06/cybercrooks-preying-on-small-businesses/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Altair Star Trek in assembly? Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm, alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:09:20 -0400"Mr Emmanuel Roche, France" <roche182@laposte.net> writes:
copy of adventure was on stanford's pdp10 ... and apparently somebody from tymshare moved copied it to their pdp10 machine and then was ported to their vm370/cms (follow-on to cp67/cms). i was able to get a copy in the 70s and then made it available internally within IBM.
folklore is that when CEO of tymshare was told that business customers were playing games on their vm370/cms systems ... he initially ordered them all removed ... but then changed his mind when he was told that 1/3rd of tymshare's revenue was coming from business customers playing games.
some old adventure related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#email780414
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#email780517
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#email790912
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 16 July, 2012 Subject: Bank Sues Customer Over ACH/Wire Fraud Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityBank Sues Customer Over ACH/Wire Fraud; Counterclaim Alleges Business is to Blame for $440K Loss
...
PATCO ACH Fraud Ruling Reversed; Appeals Court Calls Bank's Security
'Commercially Unreasonable'
http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/patco-ach-fraud-ruling-reversed-a-4919
I've frequently commented that 95/96 timeframe, online dialup consumer banking operations were making presentations at industry conferences on major motivation for moving to the internet (extensive consumer support costs for serial-port dial-up modems offloaded to ISPs). At the same time, the online dialup commercial/cash-management banking operations said that they would *NEVER* more to the internet because of a long list of security vulnerabilities (which has since shown to come to happen). More recently the FEDs have recommended businesses have a dedicated PC that is *NEVER* used for anything other than online banking (as a partial approx. of the earlier online dialup cash-management)
Inside Village View Fraud Case; Attorneys: Settlement Points to Future Considerations
http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/inside-village-view-fraud-case-a-4954?rf=2012-07-16-eb
recent posts mentioning online dialup banking:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#52 Banking malware a growing threat, as new variant of Zeus is detected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#61 Banking malware a growing threat, as new variant of Zeus is detected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#71 Password shortcomings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#24 ExplicitTacit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#18 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#79 Does Two-Factor Authentication Need Fixing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#0 Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#18 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#57 Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 17 July, 2012 Subject: Auditors All Fall Down; PFGBest and MF Global Frauds Reveal Weak Watchdogs Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityAuditors All Fall Down; PFGBest and MF Global Frauds Reveal Weak Watchdogs
During debates in the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation process, the rhetoric was that it would make sure that all fraud was caught and if CEOs signed audit reports and financial filings that turned out to be wrong ... the CEOs would go to jail (and nothing like Enron or Worldcom would ever happen again) ... but required the regulatory agencies to do something. Possibly even GAO didn't think that the regulatory agencies were doing anything and started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings, even showing uptic after SOX. Somewhat gives rise to regulatory agencies as the three monkeys (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil).
PFGBest CEO's Suicide Note Revealed Twenty Years of Secretive Fraud
http://compliancex.com/pfgbest-russell-wasendorf-twenty-years-fraud/
recent posts mentioning three monkeys and/or GAO reports:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#1 The war on terabytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#18 SEC v. Citigroup, How to Avoid (Greater) Disaster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#26 What's your favorite quote on "accountability"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#54 Report: Fed Officials Joked About Housing Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#70 Regulatory Agency logo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#19 "Buffett Tax" and truth in numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#44 What's the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#53 Can America Lead the World's Fight Against Corruption?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#54 The New Age Bounty Hunger -- Showdown at the SEC Corral
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#87 The Benefit and The Burden
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#0 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#13 Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#31 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#45 Fannie, Freddie Charge Taxpayers For Legal Bills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#54 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#5 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#10 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#12 Gordon Gekko Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#16 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#39 Fannie and Freddie must go - here's how
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#30 Senators Who Voted Against Ending Big Oil Tax Breaks Received Millions From Big Oil
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#57 speculation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#66 Predator GE: We Bring Bad Things to Life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#74 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#84 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#87 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#91 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#6 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#20 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#59 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#67 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#78 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#42 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#45 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#53 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#41 Lawmakers reworked financial portfolios after talks with Fed, Treasury officials
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#10 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#19 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#25 This Is The Wall Street Scandal Of All Scandals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#37 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 17 July, 2012 Subject: The Myth of Password Complexity & Frequent Change Rules Blog: Information SecurityDo Passwords Matter?
Frequent changes and impossible to guess makes static, shared-secret (passwords, pins, etc) authentication ... impossible to remember. 40yrs ago with possibly one or very few ... it was barely possible ... but static shared-secret paradigm doesn't scale. Part of it is basic security principles requires unique shared-secret for every unique security domain (as countermeasure to cross-domain attacks) results in individuals requiring large scores or hundreds. Rules for password are then created as if they existed in isolated environment, as if the individual only has to deal with that single password..
Old post with password rules from 30yrs ago ... it was sent to me (on
the west cost) from somebody on the east coast and I redistributed
it. Somebody then printed the rules on corporate letterhead and placed
in every building corporate bulletin board over the weekend. Monday
morning lots of people coming to work didn't pay any attention to the
date (further give away, it was on sunday that year):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#53
actually it is possible to replace registration of shared-secrets/passwords with registration of public keys ... using the same exact process. Then authentication becomes digital signature using the public key that is registered in lieu of password (slightly more complex than direct compare). Since it is no longer a shared-secret paradigm, the same public key can be registered anywhere/everywhere ... and it is no longer required that repositories of public keys be kept from prying eyes (since the public key can only be used for verifying digital signature, can't be used for generating digital signature for authentication). Since the digital signature isn't static, it is immune to evesdropping and replay attacks.
There have been both RADIUS and KERBEROS implementations of simply registering public keys ... w/o requiring PKIs, certification authorities, digital certificates, centralized authorities, etc. I wrote the RFC changes for kerberos pk-init that would do digital signature authentication w/o certificates ... basically the identical business process used for registering password ... doesn't have the limitations of shared-secret paradigm or the problems with PKIs and central authorities. Then the PKI industry applied heavy pressure to have pk-init specification include certificate-based mode of operation.
We were also brought in to help wordsmith the cal. electronic signature legislation. The PKI industry was heavily lobbying/pressuring that the legislation mandate PKI with digital certificates. They PKI industry had been shopping a $20B/annum business case around wallstreet (i.e. $100/person/annum digital certificate) that would be funded by the financial industry. We easily demonstrated that it wasn't needed.
Old post mentioning doing high availability / cluster scale-up early
Jan92 meeting in Ellison's conference room
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
old email on cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
possibly within hrs of the last email in the above, the cluster scale-up is transferred and we are told we can't work on anything involving more than four processors (a couple weeks later it is announced as ibm's superecomputer) ... prompting us to decide to leave.
Two of the other people in the Ellison meeting also leave and show up at a small client/server startup responsible for something called the "commerce server". We are brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on the server; the startup had also invented this technology called "SSL" they want to use; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
As part of the effort we have to map SSL technology to payment transactions and do walkthru/audits of these operations manufacturing "SSL" digital certificates. One of the things we identify is their systemic risk ... and also that they aren't actually needed in all but a very tiny number of scenarios ... being able to easily demonstrate certificate-less-mode of operation.
Misc. past posts mentioning certificate-less Kerberos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#kerberos
misc. past posts mentioning certificate-less Radius
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#radius
misc. past posts mentioning certificate-less
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#certless
misc. past posts mentioning cal. electronic signature legislation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
Somewhat from having done what is now frequently called "electronic commerce", in the mid-90s we were asked to participate in the X9A10 financial standards working group which had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial infrastructure for all retail payments (aka ALL, brick&morter, point-of-sale, attended, unattended, internet, face-to-face, debit, credit, ACH, stored-value, etc).
We did the X9.59 financial transaction standard which slightly tweaks
the paradigm and eliminates crooks being able to use information from
transactions for fraudulent transactions ... there is no longer to
hide transaction details as countermeasure to using the information
for fraudulent financial transactions. x9.59 reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
it does nothing to stop data breaches, evesdropping, skimming, etc ... it just eliminates the motivation since the crooks no longer can use the information for fraudulent transactions.
now the largest use of "SSL" in the world today is this earlier effort for "electronic transactions" ... which hides financial transactions details while be transmitted on the internet. With x9.59, it is no longer necessary to hide the details ... so it also eliminates the major use of "SSL".
we were also tangentially involved in the cal. state data breach notification legislation. Many of the parties involved in electronic signature were also heavily into privacy issues and had done detailed consumer surveys. The number one issue was "identity theft" ... primarily account fraud/take-over as a result of data breaches. There was nothing being done about these data breaches and apparently it was hoped that the publicity from breaches would motivate changes. A major issue is security measures are taken in self protection/interest ... the institutions having data breaches had nothing at risk ... it was the account owners that were at risk.
In the interval since the cal. data breach notification legislation many other states have passed similar legislation (the cal. legislation being the first). There also have been dozens of federal legislation introduced about evenly divided between those that are similar to cal's legislation and those (federal preemption) that would effectively eliminate requirement for notification (sometimes cleverly worded like requiring breached data containing combinations of personal information that rarely occurs in real life).
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 17 July, 2012 Subject: The Myth of Password Complexity & Frequent Change Rules Blog: Information Securityre:
Trivial with RADIUS is that its administrative account support allows multiple different supported authentication methods concurrently. The registration of a public key in lieu of password could be done on an account by account basis ... w/o requiring wholesale change-over. The business process becomes identical for such public key operation as for passwords ... with graceful transition switch-over .... w/o the enormous GORP associated with PKI ... but addressing the shortcomings of static, shared-secret (password) authentication.
The problem with shared-secrets/passwords not scaling is a unique shared-secret is required for every unique security domain. Public key & digital signature eliminates that scaling problem since the same public key can be registered in lieu of password ... at every infrastructure that currently does passwords ... and doesn't require PKI and/or digital certificates.
PKI and digital certificates are paradigm that structures public key operation in such a way that lots of money can be charged .... whether or not it is needed.
For other topic drift ... old email from over 30yrs ago... discussing
a public key PGP-like implementation ... but w/o the enormous
complexity of PKI and digital certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email810506 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email810515
PKI & digital certificates are the equivalent of letters of credit/introduction from sailing ship days for first time interaction between complete strangers. It was to address situation where the relying party had no prior knowledge for first-time interaction with a stranger and no other mechanism for obtaining the information. It was designed for the days of dial-up email when phone connection was made to electronic post office, email exchanged, the line hung up, and then it was necessary to authenticate first-time email from stranger in totally offline environment.
The failure to get financial industry to underwrite $100/account/annum digital certificates & PKI was that financial industry already has prior relationship with the parties they are dealing with ... and/or have other, much better sources of information ... frequently real-time (invalidated the assumptions requiring PKI and digital certificates).
The other part of the problem ... was while digital signature
authentication could go a long way towards addressing fraud in
financial transactions (aka X9.59 standard) ... PKI and digital
certificates are not only redundant and superfluous ... but not only
represent a tremendous (unnecessary payload bloat). Typical digital
certificate payload is 100 times larger than typical payment
transaction payload .... forcing digital certificates to be appended
to every payment transaction increases the transaction payload by a
factor of 100 times (for something that is redundant and
superfluous). misc. past posts mentioning digital certificates
represent (unnecessary, redundant and superfluous) factor of 100 times
payload bloat for payment transactions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#bloat
The market for PKI and digital certificates is quickly becoming no-value transactions where the relying party has no other mechanism for obtaining the information ... and/or the value of the transaction doesn't justify the cost of higher quality source of information. With growing ubiquitous, nearly free connectivity, PKI is being forced further and further into the no-value market segment. However, as PKI is relegated further and further into the no-value market segment, there is less and less justification for paying for digital certificates.
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 17 July, 2012 Subject: Difference between fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil? Blog: Boyd Strategyre:
for a little more topic drift (just missing "orientate" ... placing what is seen in context and understanding).
Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In
Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties
Of Staff, Infantry (Henry Wager Halleck)
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Military-Instruction-Fortification-Embracing-ebook/dp/B004TPMN16/
... free kindle book from 1846 ... has lots & lots of minutia ... but:
loc5019-20:
A rapid coup d'oeil prompt decision, active movements, are as
indispensable as sound judgment; for the general must see, and decide,
and act, all in the same instant.
followed by long discussion of lots of great conquerors started in
their teens; that Napoleon started as officer in his teens as did many
of his generals (and were still quite young) ... most of the
opposition was headed by generals in their 60s-80s .... does mention
that Wellington was same age as Napoleon and studied at the same
military schools in France.
but also has reference to long historical tradition of our MICC,
loc4344-55:
The qualifications of the former were probably limited to their
recollection of some casual visit to two or three of the old European
fortresses; and the latter probably derived all their military science
from some old military book, which, having become useless in Europe,
had found its way into this country, and which they had read without
understanding, and probably without even looking at its date. The
result was what might have been anticipated--a total waste of the
public money. We might illustrate this by numerous examples. A single
one, however, must suffice. About the period of the last war, eight
new forts were constructed for the defence of New York harbor, at an
expense of some two millions of dollars. Six of these were circular,
and the other two were star forts--systems which had been discarded in
Europe for nearly two thousand years! Three of these works are now
entirely abandoned, two others are useless, and large sums of money
have recently been expended on the other three in an attempt to remedy
their faults, and render them susceptible of a good defence. Moreover,
a number of the works which were constructed by our engineers before
that corps was made to feel the influence of the scientific education
introduced through the medium of the Military Academy--we say, a
considerable number of our fortifications, constructed by engineers
who owed their appointment to political influence, are not only wrong
in their plans, but have been made of such wretched materials and
workmanship that they are already crumbling into ruins.
Certain to Win (Chet Richards) ... kindle version no longer seems to
be at amazon loc980-85:
Fingerspitzengefuhl: Intuitive Skill Literally a fingertip feeling or
sensation, it is usually translated as "intuitive skill or knowledge."
It provides its owner an uncanny insight into confusing and chaotic
situations and is often described as the "ability to feel the battle."
During the North African campaign, the British ascribed this seemingly
mystical quality to Rommel because he always seemed to know what the
British were going to do.
... snip ...
this includes intuitive insight/knowing w/o even laying eyes on it ... which has large amount of overlap with coup d'oeil. As I mentioned upthread coup d'oeil is visial metaphor along the lines of OODA ... and the cited book from 1846 has coup d'oeil with significant part of OODA having: see (aka observe), decide and act.
My amazon order history shows "Certain to win" paperback from 2005 and kindle version from 2010 ... at the moment all the order histories show URL for corresponding items ... except there is no longer URL for "certain to win" kindle version. no explanation.
For something a little bit different NLP gets into sensory
preferences:
http://www.new-oceans.co.uk/new/learn.htm
http://wemakethemclick.com/2011/03/sensory-modalities-in-nlp-an-introduction/
We did some work with somebody that was extreme audio ... in meetings, he would stand in corner facing the wall to block out visual inputs. He also happened to be candidate for MacArthur award ... but was told he was disqualified when they found he had worked on DARPA-funded project (claim was strong bias against certain kinds of DARPA activities).
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 17 July, 2012 Subject: The Myth of Password Complexity & Frequent Change Rules Blog: Information Securityre:
the scaling problem with passwords is that every environment assumes that it is the only environment requiring a person to memorize an impossible to guess something you know, shared-secret. human factors shows that it does work past a very few ... current reality is that people are potentially faced with trying to deal with large scores or even more than a hundred.
recent discussion in (linkedin) "Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and
Security" discussion "Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy
online security" and "Bank Sues Customer Over ACH/Wire Fraud"
... which has a heavy password component
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#0 .
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#8 .
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#59 .
one of the references
ENISA Warns Banks: Assume All PCs Are Infected
http://news.softpedia.com/news/ENISA-Warns-Banks-Assume-All-PCs-Are-Infected-279470.shtml
and similar (long winded) password discussion in ibm mainframe mailing list
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#47 .
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#53 .
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#54 .
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#57 .
there is some theory that pci/dss didn't appear until after the cal. data breach notification act as part of industry effort to show that the industry was taking corrective action and therefor the data breach notification act was no longer required (i.e. motivation for the data breach notification act was in large part it appeared as if nothing was being done). However there have been quite a large number of data breaches even with PCI/DSS.
Part of the issue is that the business process in the current paradigm is quite mis-aligned
• The value of the information to the merchant is profit on the transaction (possibly couple dollars; for transaction processor possibly a few cents). The value of the information to the crook is the account balance and/or credit limit. As a result the attackers may be able to outspend by a factor of 100 times (what the defenders can afford to spend on security measures).
• The account information is also required in dozens of business processes at millions of locations on the planet. At the same time the threat of fraudulent transactions requires that the account information is kept confidential and never divulged. We've claimed that with the diametrically opposing requirements, even if the planet was buried under miles of information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't be able to stop information leakage.
misc past posts mentioning pci/dss:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#69 ATM PIN through phone or Internet. Is it secure? Is it allowed by PCI-DSS?, Visa, MC, etc.?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#3 Cybersecurity hearing highlights inadequacy of PCI DSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#16 Cybersecurity hearing highlights inadequacy of PCI DSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#36 The Compliance Spectrum...Reducing PCI DSS Scope
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#29 Data Breaches Show PCI DSS Ineffective
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#9 On Scope Scrinkage in PCI DSS
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:01:17 -0400Ibmekon writes:
401Ks & IRAs were similar activity ... as well as pushes to privatize SS. one of the issues in looting the large pensions funds was they were restricted to "safe" investments. they then found they could make toxic CDOs appear "safe" by paying the rating agencies for triple-A ... opening up access to all the piles of money restricted to only dealing in triple-A.
there is whole bunch about propping up the too-big-to-fail and not holding them accountable ... but very little about how much of the triple-A rated toxic CDOs are still being held by large pension funds (a primary point in dealing the triple-A was so that it opened up the large pension funds for the toxic CDOs).
the original TARP funds was to "buy" up toxic assets ... but with $27T
done during the period
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
... the $700B appropriated for TARP would have hardly made a ripple. End
of 2008, estimate the just four largest too-big-to-fail were still
carrying $5.2T "off-balance" ... earlier that fall, several tens of
billions had gone for 22cents on the dollar, if the TBTF had been
required to bring back on balance, they would have been declared
insolvent and forced to liquidate
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
the TARP funds were then redirected (including propping up the TBTF in
other ways) ... and it was the Federal Reserve that started doing stuff
behind the scenes ... including purchasing toxic assets at 98cents on
the dollar (they fought legal action for more than year over releasing
details about what they were doing):
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1201/Federal-Reserve-s-astounding-report-We-loaned-banks-trillions
the $10T growing to possibly $30T by ye2011
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/12/bailout-total-29-616-trillion-dollars/
directed at institutions with bank charters ... including giving bank charters to some of the wallstreet institutions that didn't have them. But little mention of the large pension funds ... which were primary targets of the whole triple-A rating scam.
one of the issues was with all the propping up the too-big-to-fail and little addressing underlying problem ... is that it remains huge boat anchor dragging down any recovery.
Bernanke testimony yesterday (and continues today) was he would try and do something ... but from last summer
Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/geithner-bernanke-have-little-in-arsenal-to-fight-new-crisis/2011/08/12/gIQAFuFvFJ_story.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:15:57 -0400Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
largest configured 80-processor latest z196 goes for $28M and rated at 50BIPS processing power (about $560,000/BIP)
e5-2600 have 527BIPS processing power rating and even IBM has base list
price for e5-2600 of $1815 (about $3.50/BIP) ... e5-2600 recently
mention as basic component in cloud offerings:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#12 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#1 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
some of this has been playing in mainframe discussions about role that z196 can play in cloud computing. one of the big issues is that the large public cloud pioneers heavily leverage open hardware and software ... in part being able to minimize costs ... but also assembling their own blades (claiming 1/3rd the cost of price of brand name blades) and building their own operating systems ... allowed them to be tailored specifically for task at hand.
misc. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#20 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#78 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#80 Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#28 New IBM mainframe instructions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#30 New IBM mainframe instructions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#41 Are rotating register files still a bad idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#2 NASA unplugs their last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#50 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#99 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#0 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#7 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#19 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#20 Mainframes Warming Up to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#70 How many cost a cpu second?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#11 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#15 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#16 Think You Know The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#84 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#88 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#95 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#9 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 18 July, 2012 Subject: Protecting Pin Pad Payment Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityProtecting Pin Pad Payment
Multi-factor authentication is assumed to be more secure if the
different factors have different vulnerabilities and exploits (PIN
frequently be associated with countermeasure to lost/stolen
card). misc. past posts mentioning 3-factor authentication paradigm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#3factor
However, end-point compromise (and/or end-point communication compromise) have represented a common vulnerability for at least a couple decades. Compromised end-point harvests both card static data and PIN ... allowing creation of counterfeit card with PIN. The compromised end-point represents a common vulnerability ... negating the increased security assumption about independent vulnerabilities/exploits (such end-point compromises date back at least two decades)
A decade ago there was large chip&pin pilot deployment in the US
... however it was in the YES CARD period ... and not long after, it
seemed to evaporate w/o a trace. That large pilot deployment in the US
with the YES CARD has probably contributed to subsequent lack of
uptake. This has reference to YES CARD presentation at cartes2002
(gone 404, but lives on at the wayback machine):
https://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
A compromised end-point harvested the static authentication data necessary to create a counterfeit YES CARD. The nature of the operation turns out to negate even needing to harvest the associated PIN. After a terminal authenticates the (counterfeit YES CARD) card, the card always answers "YES" to the following questions 1) was the correct PIN entered, 2) do an offline transaction, 3) is the transaction within the account credit limit.
The "YES" answer to #1 negates even needing to know the correct
pin. The "YES" answers to #2 negates invalidating the account as
method of stopping the fraud. YES CARDS presentation at the ATM
Integrity Task Force meetings prompted somebody in the audience to
loudly comment that they managed to spend billions of dollars to prove
chips are less secure than magstripe (because invalidating account is
not effective against a YES CARD). misc. past posts mentioning
YES CARD:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 18 July, 2012 Subject: The Myth of Password Complexity & Frequent Change Rules Blog: Information Securityre:
Shared-secrets/password (something you know) authentication appears to be fine when taking myopic institutional-centric ... the magnitude of the problem and poor-scaling becomes apparent with person-centric viewpoint when individual is required to deal with hundreds of institutions all requiring their own unique, shared-secret/password authentication.
An issue with getting institutions to correct the problem ... is that it isn't an issue with any specific institution ... it spans all the institutions depending on password-based authentication. It is analogous to the upthread mention of data breach notification legislation ... the institutions weren't at risk from the breaches and therefor weren't doing anything ... it was the individuals that were at risk ... and there was some hope that the publicity from the data breach notifications would prompt institutional action.
In the wake of the original data breach notification legislation ... there was some corrective action with PCI-DSS ... but it 1) seemed to largely be motivated as an execuse to eliminate the notification requirement and 2) seemed to have little practical effect on breaches (breaches occurring at PCI-DSS certified institutions ... which would then have the PCI-DSS certification revoked ... not because they didn't meet PCI-DSS certification ... but because they had a breach).
Middle 90s, there were several presentation at financial industry conferences about motivation for dialup, online banking operations moving to internet (major motivation was huge consumer support costs related to serial-port modems being offloaded to ISPs). At the same time, the dialup, online commercial banking/cash-management operations were claiming that they would never move to the internet ... for a long list of security issues ... including a numerous kinds of end-point compromises (all that have since come to pass).
End of the 90s, lots of operations were working on something you have, card-based authentication for the personal computing market, company in redmond having card-based groups, EU had countermeasure standard for compromised PC/end-point, etc. Early part of the century, a major payment card operation added chip to their consumer payment card and offered "free" cardreader to their customers. The ensuing customer support disaster resulted in rapidly spreading rumor throughout the industry that smartcard based authentication wasn't practical in the consumer market ... and nearly all smartcard based solutions being abandoned (including redmond company dissolving all their smartcard groups).
My wife and I did a joint after action review with some members at the redmond company ... and it turned out the enormous customer support disaster was not related to smartcards but to the serial-port smartcard reader that was being used for the free give-away (some conjecture that they got fire-sale on serial-port readers exactly because they were obsolete). The industry institutional knowledge about enormous serial-port customer support costs apparently evaporated in the few years between the mid-90s and the late-90s (serial-port related customer support problems were also major motivation for development of USB). In any case, it wasn't possible to turn around the rapidly spreading and pervasive opinion in the industry, it really being a serial-port issue and not a smartcard issue (and turn-around all the programs being abandoned, including the EU countermeasure standard for compromised PC/end-point).
The issue of compromised PC/end-point shows up here
ENISA Warns Banks: Assume All PCs Are Infected
http://news.softpedia.com/news/ENISA-Warns-Banks-Assume-All-PCs-Are-Infected-279470.shtml
related to recent court cases over fraudulent online banking activity and financial institution liability for relying on shared-secret, static, something you know authentication.
past posts mentioning shared-secret/password authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#secrets
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:25:44 -0400Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
clusters have demonstrated comparable availability.
part of the hang-over is from the 90s when large institutions spent billions on re-engineering from legacy mainframe to large numbers of killer-micros.
in the 60s & 70s ... lots of legacy institutions added online/real-time front ends to their batch settlement operations ... however they still completed the operations in overnight processing.
in the 90s, the increasing workload and globalization .... was putting pressure on shortening the overnight batch window as well as increasing the processing needed to be done. To address the problem, the billions were spent on re-engineering for straight-through processing ... with the increase in workload offset (i.e. overnight batch processing portion being combined with the real-time operations) by implementation on large number of killer micros.
the problem was that the pilot workload/demonstrations was done with technology that didn't actually do parallel scaling well ... along with having on the order of 100 times the overhead of comparable legacy batch Cobol (totally swamping the anticipated throughput improvements with large number of killer micros). The resulting monumental failures resulted in huge risk adversion in the culture and settling back to the legacy mainframe implementations.
A couple years ago, I participated in taking some newer tachnology to an financial industry association that addressed all the problems from the 90s ... reducing straight-through processing performance to only 3-5 times that of overnight batch cobol, instead of 100 times. Simulated transactions on modest sized cluster showed ability to handle the equivalent of full day of (straight-through processing) transactions for a very large institution in approx. an hour of elapsed time (easily handling daily peak-load with plenty of capacity to spare).
Initially the (mostly technical) members of the financial association showed a great deal of interest ... but then all activity was halted. One of the offline comments was that among the business people at the member institutions ... the scars from the failures of the 90s were still too fresh ... and it was going to take quite a bit more time before shifting away from the risk adverse culture that had resulted (from those failures).
recent posts mentioning killer micros and/or straight-through
processing:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#49 US payments system failing to meet the needs of the digital economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#0 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#24 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#36 Time to competency for new software language?
note however, lots of other stuff did (successfully) migrate off legacy mainframes contributing to company going into the red in the early 90s ... resulting in the Gerstner period that resurrected the company ... directing it away from hardware products and more into services. Recent numbers are that 83% of revenue comes from services&software ... and 17% accounting for everything else ... including all hardware. Hardware revenue has been pegged approx. equally divided $5B for i86 hardware, $5B for power/risc hardware, and $5B for legacy mainframe hardware.
The $5B/annum for legacy mainframe hardware works out to approx 180 fully configured 80 processor z196 systems (at $28M each).
recent posts mentioning Gerstner "resurrection" of the company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#45 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#57 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#92 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#103 Google works on Internet standards with TCP proposals, SPDY standardization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#104 Can a business be democratic? Tom Watson Sr. thought so
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#41 Are rotating register files still a bad idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#59 Original Thinking Is Hard, Where Good Ideas Come From
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#74 IBM Doing Some Restructuring?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#21 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#23 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#35 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#104 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#105 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#3 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#84 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#4 Hard drives: A bit of progress
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#34 Co-existance of z/OS and z/VM on same DASD farm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#72 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#74 Why So Many Formerly Successful Companies Are Failing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#82 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#87 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#4 Think You Know The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#12 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#16 Hierarchy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#21 The Age of Unsatisfying Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#35 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#45 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#55 The Invention of Email
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:59:24 -0400Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
I can't find it now ... but I thot I saw something yesterday about mainframe revenue dropping below $4B
Clouds Hang Over IBM's Mainframe Future
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-43444459/clouds-hang-over-ibms-mainframe-future/
above says Z mainframe down 24% in revenue ... which would correspond to dropping below $4B ... which would translate into equivalent of approx. 135 z196 (@$28M each).
from the article:
IBM has tried to position mainframes as cloud servers. There's just one
problem with that approach: It's so much spin that I'm surprised company
executives don't lean when they stand.
... snip ...
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 20 Jul 2012 09:46:41 -0700mward@SSFCU.ORG (Ward, Mike S) writes:
strategy with 3081 was to never again to offer single process at the
high-end. this ran into a couple problems ... clone processor vendors
were offering uniprocessor and ACP/TPF didn't have multiprocessor
support. All sorts of unnatural acts were done to try an make a 3081
acceptable to ACP/TPF (and head off customer base all moving to clone
processors). this is besides the issues outline here about comparison
between 3081 and clone processors:
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
eventually there was 3083 (in large part for the ACP/TPF market) which was created by removing a processor from a 3081 (which is not as simple as you might think, processor 0 was at the top of the frame, so processor 1 in the middle of the frame would be the one removed ... but that made the frame dangerously top-heavy). Being only single processor, turning off the cross-cache 10% slowdown made the processor nearly 15% faster (than a processor in 3081).
combining two 3081s together for a four-process 3084 was big challenge ... singe it met that each processor cache would be getting cross-cache invalidation signals from three other caches (not just one). kernel storage use became significant ... so operating systems running on 3084 were cache-line sensitised ... all kernel storage was changed to align on cache-line boundaries and be multiples of cache-lines. The problem was that if the start of end of one storage location was at the start of a cache-line and the start of a different storage location was at the end of the same cache-line ... the two different storage locations could be in use by different processors simultaneously. However, it represents only a single storage block for cache management ... and could result in cache "thrashing". The storage cache sensitivity change is claimed to improve 3084 throughput by 5-6% (minimizing cache line thrashing).
However, higher-end 370s processor throughput was quite sensitive to cache hit ratios ... which would be seriously affected by high-rate of asynchronous i/o interrupts. For my "resource manager" ... I did some hacks (at high i/o rates) turning off enabling for I/O interrupts for periods of time and then draining all pending I/O interrupts. I could demonstrate aggregate higher throughput (even I/O throughput) ... since the batching of I/O interrupts would have much higher processor throughput (because of better cache hit ratio) ... offsetting any delay in taking the interrupt (note part of 370/xa was attempting to address same issue with various kinds of i/o queuing in the hardware).
When I first did two-processor 370 support ... I was able to deploy in production environemnt ... two processors running more than twice MIP rate as single processor ... including processor cycle only running at .9 that of single processor. Some games with cache affinity allowed improved cache hit ratio ... which more than offset the 10% slowdown in processor cycle.
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 20 July, 2012 Subject: Bank Sues Customer Over ACH/Wire Fraud Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
Inside Village View Fraud Case; Attorneys: Settlement Points to Future
Considerations
http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/inside-village-view-fraud-case-a-4954?rf=2012-07-16-eb
Three Lessons from PATCO Fraud Ruling; Attorney Highlights Takeaways
from Appellate Court's Reversal
http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/3-lessons-from-patco-fraud-ruling-a-4970?rf=2012-07-20-eb
Part of the issue is also that the business process in the current paradigm is quite mis-aligned
• The account information is required in dozens of business processes at millions of locations on the planet. At the same time the threat of fraudulent transactions requires that the account information is kept confidential and never divulged. We've claimed that with the diametrically opposing requirements, even if the planet was buried under miles of information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't be able to stop information leakage.
...
Separating the information needed for frequent business operations and the information needed for authentication would help the situation ... however that needs to go hand-in-hand with countermeasures for compromised end-points/PCs. In the late 90s, there was an EU standard that (coupled with stronger authentication) would address the compromised end-points/PCs issue.
There were quite a number of token based efforts that were developed in the late 90s. Early part of the century, a major payment card operation added chip to their consumer payment card and offered "free" cardreader to their customers. The ensuing customer support disaster resulted in rapidly spreading rumor throughout the industry that smartcard based authentication wasn't practical in the consumer market ... and nearly all smartcard based solutions being abandoned (including redmond company dissolving all their smartcard groups).
My wife and I did a joint after action review with some members at the
redmond company ... and it turned out the enormous customer support
disaster was not related to smartcards but to the serial-port
smartcard reader that was being used for the free give-away (some
conjecture that they got fire-sale on serial-port readers exactly
because they were obsolete). The industry institutional knowledge
about enormous serial-port customer support costs apparently
evaporated in the few years between the mid-90s and the late-90s
(serial-port related customer support problems were also major
motivation for development of USB). In any case, it wasn't possible to
turn around the rapidly spreading and pervasive opinion in the
industry, it really being a serial-port issue and not a smartcard
issue (and turn-around all the programs being abandoned, including the
EU countermeasure standard for compromised PC/end-point). misc.
past posts mentioning EU FINREAD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#finread
x-over discussion in (closed, linkedin) Information Security
discussion, part of my posts archived here:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#68
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 21 July, 2012 Subject: Is it time to consider a stand-alone PC for online banking? Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityIs it time to consider a stand-alone PC for online banking?
from above:
So here's my proposal: Set up a separate system just for the sole
purpose of online banking.
... snip ...
In the 95/96 time-frame when dialup online consumer banking said they were moving to the internet (largely motivated by the large customer support costs related to supporting serial-port modems), the dialup online commercial/cash-management operations were saying they would never move to the internet for a long list of reasons (lots of which were [are] still seeing) ... although those operations eventually moved to the internet anyway.
One of the major identified vulnerabilities was compromised end-point ... to the extent that EU in the late 90s, developed a countermeasure standard to combat compromised end-point ... but for various reasons it never got deployed and was abandoned. Since that time, there have been periodic proposals that companies used dedicated PCs for online banking ... that are *NEVER* used for any other purpose (as partial return to the days of online dialup, before the internet)
recent posts mentioning move from online dialup to internet:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#52 Banking malware a growing threat, as new variant of Zeus is detected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#61 Banking malware a growing threat, as new variant of Zeus is detected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#71 Password shortcomings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#24 ExplicitTacit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#18 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#79 Does Two-Factor Authentication Need Fixing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#0 Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#18 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#57 Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#59 Bank Sues Customer Over ACH/Wire Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#68 The Myth of Password Complexity & Frequent Change Rules
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 21 July, 2012 Subject: What voters are really choosing in November Blog: FacebookWhat voters are really choosing in November
from above:
America is worse off than it was 30 years ago -- in infrastructure,
education and research. The country spends much less on infrastructure
as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP). By 2009, federal
funding for research and development was half the share of GDP that it
was in 1960. Even spending on education and training is lower as a
percentage of the federal budget than it was during the 1980s.
... snip ...
in tandem memos from 1980 ... it was blamed on rise of MBAs and focus on qtr numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit_Mandelbrot
Mandelbrot left IBM in 1987, after 35 years and 12 days, when IBM
decided to end pure research in his division.
Math, leverage and risk
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NF20Dj03.html
Benoit Mandelbrot, in his 2004 The Misbehavior of Markets, had pointed
them out with mathematical elegance we could not hope to match
(Mandelbrot had pointed out flaws in the emerging underlying theory as
early as 1962).
... snip ...
The (MIS)Behavior Of Markets
https://www.amazon.com/The-Misbehavior-Markets-Turbulence-ebook/dp/B004PYDBEO
Mendelbrot description of period from 60s through the last decade was (economists) continuing to use same computations even when they are repeatedly shown to be wrong. some of Mendelbrot's references are similar to this (by nobel prize winner in economics)
Thinking Fast and Slow
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-and-Slow-ebook/dp/B00555X8OA
Since then, my questions about the stock market have hardened into a
larger puzzle: a major industry appears to be built largely on an
illusion of skill. Billions of shares are traded every day, with many
people buying each stock and others selling it to them
... snip ...
somebody on bloomberg tv news late thursday was trying to analyze IBM's financial report. he made reference an unexplained onetime $200m profit item. He also said that there was extensive borrowing and stock buyback as part of propping up the stock price ... question was how much is executive bonus tied to stock price (being motivation for stock buyback).
you must be thinking of some other wheeler ... they offered me 1st line manager a year out of school. I asked to read the manager's manual over the weekend. I came back on monday and said I was foreman on 30 person construction crew my 1st yr in college ... and that management experience is incompatible with whats in IBM manager's manual. nobody ever made the offer again.
one of my favorite stories about management ... the first time I scheduled Boyd's briefing at IBM, I tried to do it through employee education. At first they agreed, but after I provided more information about the briefing they changed their mind. They said IBM spends a lot of resources training managers in how to handle employees and that exposing general employees to Boyd's briefing would be counter productive. I should restrict the audience to only senior members of competitive analysis departments.
misc. past posts & URLs referencing Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
recent posts mentioning "worse off" &/or Zakaria
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#1 The war on terabytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#3 We are on the brink of a historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#30 Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#45 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#87 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#48 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#8 America needs a 2-page tax code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#70 Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#35 Inequality and Investment Bubbles: A Clearer Link Is Established
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#61 Zakaria: by itself, Buffett rule is good
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#88 Defense acquisitions are broken and no one cares
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#45 Fareed Zakaria
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#80 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#3 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#5 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#6 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#14 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#18 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#27 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#30 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#32 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#33 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#37 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#38 Other Than In Computers, Civilization Basically Stopped Progressing In The 1960s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#44 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#46 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#50 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#10 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#48 Thousands Of IBM Employees Got A Nasty Surprise Yesterday: Here's The Email They Saw
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#81 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 21 July, 2012 Subject: Excellent and recommended Blog: Boyd Strategyre:
Venkat on Positioning vs. Melee Moves
http://zenpundit.com/?p=11349
Boyd would say he predicted effort on Ho Chi Minh Trail would fail ... even before he was sent over to spook base. Reading between the lines in Coram's Boyd biography implies that McNamara was significant improvement on the Pentagon culture of the period (including Sprey being one of the "whiz kids") ... even if that still left a lot of room for improvement.
I met Boyd in 1983, when I first sponsored his Patterns Of Conflict briefing at IBM.
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Robert Coram)
pg268/loc4681-86
The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a network of trails and dirt roads that
formed the main route by which North Vietnamese forces operating in
South Vietnam were resupplied by cargo-carrying bicycles and small
trucks. Seeding the trail with sensors had been the idea of Defense
Secretary McNamara's R&D technocrats, and the project became known as
the "McNamara Line." The $2.5 billion operation was a huge windfall
for IBM. The technocrats convinced McNamara that if the trail were
wired--as one Task Force Alpha worker said, like a "pinball
machine"--the supply chain could be broken and America could win the
war. This was America's first electronic battlefield. It was one of
the most highly classified operations of the Vietnam War.
... snip ...
gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
pg274/loc4802-4
Boyd also dealt with situations of great consequence. He said the
McNamara Line was an expensive failure and shut it down. He claimed
that a four-star general later told him he was sent to NKP solely
because Pentagon generals knew he was the only man in the Air Force
with the guts to close down the boondoggle.
... snip ...
There have been references that the signal processing couldn't tell the difference between an elephant and large troop movements ... as a result there was a significant number of elephant bombing strikes.
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Robert Coram),
other comments about nkp ... pg266 /loc4655-61
The army had a heavily guarded compound from which the curiously named
Studies and Observation Group (SOG) launched some of the most daring
and still-secret activities of the war.
.... snip ...
for some SOG tales: Across The Fence (only $3.29):
https://www.amazon.com/Across-The-Fence-ebook/dp/B004XMOISG
not so implicit (Coram) reference to mcnamara's effect -
pg196/loc3453-57
Even among McNamara's Whiz Kids--the highly educated and
extraordinarily bright young men brought into the Building with a
mandate to impose rational thought on both the military and the
military budget--Pierre Sprey stood out.
... and pg290/Loc5060-63:
TacAir was part of the old Systems Analysis office, the home of the
Whiz Kids. Under McNamara, TacAir had been extremely powerful because
it confronted the Air Force and Navy and made them prove why each
program was needed. It thus had great influence on which proposed Air
Force programs made it into the budget. Not surprisingly, the military
loathed Systems Analysis so much that the name was changed to Program
Analysis & Evaluation (PA&E).
... snip ...
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 21 July, 2012 Subject: Kopp paper is a warning to U.S. leadership Blog: FacebookKopp paper is a warning to U.S. leadership
Technological Strategy in the Age of Exponential Growth
http://www.ndu.edu/press/technological-strategy.html
... and a lot of commoditized technology is also being outsourced to these other countries.
New Israeli Artillery Concepts, Technology Combine
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=%2Farticle-xml%2Fasd_07_20_2012_p05-01-477526.xml
Top Scientist Laments Air Force's Poor Awareness in Cyberspace
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=836
Coming soon: a drone for all theaters
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NG20Dj04.html
They saw their first large-scale employment in the Vietnam War,
albeit in secret without the attendant publicity of today's "drone"
operations. Launched from United States Air Force (USAF) DC-130s
operating out of South Vietnam and later Thailand, America's "Firefly"
drones flew 3,425 missions over North Vietnam and along the
Sino-Vietnamese border between 1964-1975.
... snip ...
"Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War" (Robert Coram),
pg337/loc5844-47:
But Eisenhower did not understand this kind of conflict and, at the
very moment of victory--egged on by jealous and conventional British
officers--he grew afraid for Patton's flanks and supply lines and
ordered Patton to stop. The Germans were amazed at the respite. One
school of thought says that Eisenhower's timidity cost another six
months of war and a million additional lives.
the referenced paper:
http://www.ndu.edu/press/technological-strategy.html
... and within the Armed Forces the often controversial yet gifted
Colonel John Boyd, who was able to articulate and effectively
propagate his revolutionary vision of energy maneuverability
... disclaimer, I sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 17:35:55 -0400Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
above referenced technology heavily leveraged throughput work done for RDBMS parallelizing.
old post about parallelized RDBMS (meeting in Ellison's conference
room early Jan1992)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
old email about doing cluster scale-up as part of HA/CMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
old posts mentioning HA/CMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
more recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#43 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
for a little cross-over:
Kopp paper is a warning to U.S. leadership
http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.com/2012/07/kopp-paper-is-warning-to-us-leadership.html
reference this paper
Technological Strategy in the Age of Exponential Growth
http://www.ndu.edu/press/technological-strategy.html
which cites Amdahl on parallelization:
When a processor is not fast enough to solve a problem, the most common
solution is to employ more than one processor--a technique known as
parallel processing whereby the computing workload is split across
multiple processors. Unfortunately, not every type of computation can be
easily split up to permit faster computation. The optimism surrounding
the use of computational clouds and other highly parallel systems is
frequently unrealistic, as such systems will not realize any performance
gain if the problem to be solved does not "parallelize" readily. This has
been understood by computer scientists since Gene Amdahl published his
now famous 1967 paper.
... snip ...
the paper also references Boyd:
... and within the Armed Forces the often controversial yet gifted Colonel
John Boyd, who was able to articulate and effectively propagate his
revolutionary vision of energy maneuverability.
... snip ...
misc. posts &/or URLs referencing Boyd (I had sponsored his briefings at
IBM):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
misc. past posts mentioning SMP operation and/or parallel processing holy grail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#15 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#44 Are multicore processors driving application developers to explore multithreaded programming options?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#26 What is the biggest IT myth of all time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#9 Age
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#8 No command, and control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#21 Eurofighter v F16
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#122 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#15 Why do people say "the soda loop is often depicted as a simple loop"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#36 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#48 Difference between fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#44 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#45 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#71 Help with elementary CPU speed question
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 21 July, 2012 Subject: locks, semaphores and reference counting Blog: private mailing listWhen Charlie was working on fine-grain multiprocessor locking for cp67 at the science center, he invented compare&swap (the instruction name was chosen because CAS are Charlie's initials).
Attempts to get the instruction included in 370 were initially rebuffed, the "owners" of 370 architecture saying that the POK favorite son operating system people claiming that test&set (from 360) was sufficient for multiprocessor operation. Their direction to get compare&swap included in 370 would require coming up with non-multiprocessor specific uses for the instruction.
We came back with the compare&swap uses for large, multithreaded applications that would use for atomic updating. A large DBMS running enabled for interrupts would normally have to resort to kernel calls for atomic operations & serialization. With compare&swap a lot of the operations could be performed inline (independent of running on single process or multiprocessor). Some of the examples then were added to the mainframe principles of operation ... and still appear in current POP 40yrs later.
past posts mentioning smp and/or compare&swap
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
When RDBMS were being ported to RS/6000 ... compare&swap semantics had migrated to lots of other hardware platforms and when available were being used by lots of the RDBMS implementation. RS/6000 (RIOS) didn't have any such operation ... and so RDBMS ported to RS/6000 UNIX AIX had to use kernel calls instead, with associated throughput degradation. In part because RS/6000 didn't provide multiprocessor operation, a compare&swap instruction simulation was eventually provided in the kernel first-level interrupt handler (running disabled for interrupts, provided simulation of atomic operation on single processor hardware).
past posts mentioning ha/cmp
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
At the same time that original relational/sql implementation was going on ... System/R ... I also got into also doing parts of semantic network DBMS implementation ... using lots of stuff from Sowa (also at IBM same time as Codd). RDBMS doesn't have referential integrity ... because of the (implied) one-directional references. The SNDBMS directly instantiated direct pointer/links and part of the implementation was guaranteeing all pointer/links were bidirectional.
There was some contention between the IMS group (with directly
instantiated one-way pointers) and RDBMS with implied one directional
pointers using values and multi-table lookups. The IMS group
criticized the RDBMS group since the indexes supporting value lookup
typically doubled the amount of required disk space (compared to same
data loaded into IMS). RDBMS group responded that the value/index
lookup eliminated a whole lot of manual administrative operations
required in IMS (associated with exposed pointer values). The SNDBMS
used a different kind of value-based pointer operations ... requiring
index infrastructure ... but with explicit relationships between every
item and every other item (rather than implied as in RDBMS with table
indexes), there was enormous forest of indexes ... both for forward
and backwards (among other things, guaranteeing referential integrity)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
I maintain RFC index and merged taxonomy&glossary information in such
a SNDBMS and then periodically rebuild the HTML files that appear at
garlic.com ... using HREFs to try and simulate bi-directional
links. For at least a decade, the HTML pages would get a couple
thousand hits a day by the major search engines every day
... appearing to use the pages as daily regression test because of the
very high ratio of HREFs to file sizes.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/index.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Slackware Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:46:52 -0400Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
early in rex days (well before released as rexx product to customers), I wanted to demostrate that it wasn't just another pretty scripting language. My demonstration was complete re-implementation of IPCS ... done in half time in less than 3months, with ten times the function and running ten times faster (little hack since rex is interpreted).
I finished early ... so started implementating library that would automatically examine dumps for various kinds of failure signatures.
after rexx release and company heading into OCO-wars ... I thot my ipcs
replacement would be released to customers ... especially since it was
in use by almost every internal datacenter as well as nearly every
customer PSR (program service representative). The number of internal
datacenters wasn't insignificant ... the internal network ... some
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until
late '85 or possibly early '86. at the time of arpanet great change over
to internetworking protocol on 1Jan1983, there was on the order of 250
host and 100 IMP nodes ... 1983 was when the internal network passed
1000 host-nodes ... past reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
For whatever reason, release to customers never happened ... but I did manage to get permission to do presentations at various user group meetings ... going into detail about how I had done the implementation ... within a few months similar implementations were starting to appear at customer sites and other vendors.
misc. past posts mentioning DUMPRX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx
misc. past posts with various old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#5 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#18 IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#23 How to write a full-screen Rexx debugger?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#24 How to write a full-screen Rexx debugger?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#4 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#12 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#32 Need tool to zap core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#38 Need tool to zap core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#24 IBM S/360 Green Card high quality scan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#61 VM13025 ... zombie/hung users
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#25 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#18 VM Workshop 2012
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Slackware Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 12:01:12 -0400Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
dumprx could work off live cms & vm370/cp kernel storage ... although it wouldn't freeze the storage.
i never did get around to doing much in switch to xa. one of the things that could have been done with xa access registers ... was accessing other virtual address spaces ... aka use access registers to temporary suspend address space in another virtual address space ... examine things and then resume operation
dumprx could either run as line-mode terminal session or as a xedit macro ... the dumprx session effectively was an xedit "file" ... so that both dumprx and full xedit capability were useable (including other rex macros) ... as well as things like "restarting" session.
I wrote a mini-decompiler in the rex code ... give it macro dsect library and it would format areas of storage as per member specification from macro library.
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 22 July, 2012 Subject: GBP13tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityGBP13tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite * Study estimates staggering size of offshore economy * Private banks help wealthiest to move cash into havens
post to linkedin automatically translated GBP13tn to $21tn
Wealth doesn't trickle down -- it just floods offshore, new research
reveals; A far-reaching new study suggests a staggering $21tn in
assets has been lost to global tax havens. If taxed, that could have
been enough to put parts of Africa back on its feet -- and even solve
the euro crisis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/21/offshore-wealth-global-economy-tax-havens
Tax havens: Super-rich 'hiding' at least $21tn
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18944097
Tax Justice Network: Wealth Held in Tax Havens Skyrockets
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/07/22/tax-justice-network-wealth-held-in-tax-havens-skyrockets/
Wealthy hiding $21 trillion in tax havens, report says
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/22/tax-havens.html
$US21 trillion 'hidden in tax havens'
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-23/31-trillion-dollars-hidden-in-tax-haven/4147114
much of the estimated $21T-$31T in offshore accounts was stripped from
developing countries, facilitated by immense corruption aided and
abetted by US interests:
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man-ebook/dp/B001AFF266
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Prosperity-ebook/dp/B0058Z4NR8
https://www.amazon.com/The-Next-Convergence-Multispeed-ebook/dp/B004EPYWCO/
several references to Botswana being rare exception to the "natural resource curse" that results in enormous corruption.
recent posts mention offshore tax loopholes/cheats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#29 Mitt Romney avoids U.S tax by using Offshore bank accounts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#34 Mitt Romney avoids U.S tax by using Offshore bank accounts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#37 Romney's Opponents Intensify Attacks as Voting Nears
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#40 Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#27 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: printer history Languages influenced by PL/1 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.lang.pl1 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:53:02 -0400"Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> writes:
early on mainframe principles of operation was moved to cms script file. actually it was the architecture "redbook" (for the red 3-ring binder it was distributed in). There were conditional controls in the file that printed either the full architecture redbook ... lots of engineering notes, feature justification, discussion of alternatives, etc ... or the principles of operation subset (version selection with command line parameter, whether redbook or POP). when printed on 1403n1 ... some of this can be seen in principles of operation ... where the diagram boxes didn't have solid/continuous lines.
science center developed an application that traced instruction and storage fetch/store addresses. "plotting" was done on 1403 with address vertical and time horizontal ... addresses were scaled to about 7ft length of 1403 output and time scaled could be 20-30ft. The paper assembled on some of the interior hallways of the science center.
One of the uses was looking at how to redo apl storage management. science center had ported apl\360 to cp67/cms for cms\apl. standard apl storage management allocated new storage location on every assignment. when all storage (in workspace) was exhausted, it would do garbage collection (compacting inuse storage) and start all over again. apl\360 with 16kbyte workspace that was completely swapped as single entity ... didn't make any difference. Moved to multiple megabyte virtual storage, demand paged environment ... resulted in severe page thrashing. plot along the hallways was strong sawtooth pattern ... relatively rapid rise from low storage to high followed by sharp "tooth blade" edge (as garbage collected) ... repeated numerous times as moved down the hall.
application also did semi-automated program reorganization as aid in improving preformance in virtual memory, demand paged environment. It was used by lots of internal development group (like IMS) for moving from real-storage (os/360) to virtual memory environment (as well as identifying execution "hot-spots"). It was eventually released to customers as VS/Repack in spring of 1976.
misc recent posts mentioning architecture redbook, vs/repack, and/or
cms\apl:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#14 HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#50 Can any one tell about what is APL language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#64 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#6 Cloud apps placed well in the economic cycle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#38 Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#73 Execution Velocity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#59 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#20 Operating System, what is it?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 23 July, 2012 Subject: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Blog: LinkedIn... also alt.folklore.computers, bit.listserv.ibm-main newsgroups
Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444464304577539063008406518.html
WSJ mangles history to argue government didn't launch the Internet
co-worker from the science center:
note, GML was (also) invented at the science center in 1969 and decade
later morphs into ISO standard SGML ... and then after another decade morphs into
HTML
first webserver outside europe is on slac's vm370 service:
virtual machines also invented at the science center in the 60s
past posts mentioning science center
TCP/IP is the technology basis for the modern internet, NSFNET
backbone was the operational basis for the modern internet, and CIX
was the business basis for the modern internet; misc. old email about
NSFNET backbone:
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/wsj-mangles-history-to-argue-government-didnt-launch-the-internet/
As We May Think - Vannevar Bush
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/3881//a>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
In 1976, MIT Professor Jerry Saltzer accompanied Hendricks to DARPA,
where Henricks described his innovations to the principal scientist,
Dr. Vinton P. Cerf. From that point on, Vint and other DARPA
scientists adopted Hendricks -- connectionless approach. The result
developed into the Internet as we know it today.
... snip ...
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
past posts mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
old email mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet
past posts mentioning bitnet/earn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
past posts mentioning arpanet/internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
past posts mentioning GML/SGML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
past posts mentioning nsfnet backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
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Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:06:18 -0400Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
this is collection of past a.f.c. posts about transition from
arpanet to internet ... as well as references to both RFC and
IEN publications
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm
IEN pubications for internet protocol start July 1977 with IEN-1 and last one I have is IEN-212 dated Sept. 1982.
IEN archive:
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/ien/
Ed's implementation was already up and running with internal
network by 1973 time-frame
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
from above:
In 1971, Norman Rasmussen, founder and manager of IBM's Cambridge
Scientific Center, asked Hendricks to find a way for the CSC machine to
communicate with machines at IBM's other Scientific Centers. Hendricks
and Tim Hartmann, of the IBM Technology Data Center in Poughkeepsie, NY,
produced RSCS, which went into operation within IBM in 1973. RSCS was
later renamed and released to IBM customers as the VM/370 Networking
PRPQ in 1975.[3][4] The importance of this subsystem as a component of
VM is described by Robert Creasy.[5]
... snip ...
recent reference having hard-copy of 4/15/77 VNET network map and
node-list
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#82 printer history Languages influenced by PL/1
Part of the issue was that while vnet native protocol was in use earlier ... the implementation had to be done in layered way ... so that it could transparently interoperate with the other major internal networking protocol hasp/jes2.
Internally between mostly campus hasp systems, they were running some support that came from triangle university ("TUCC" in cols 68-71 source code). The implementation was intertwined with standard HASP support and not cleanly layered ... and node definitions were done by taking empty entries in the HASP psuedo-device table (255 entry table used for hasp for psuedo unit-record devices ... typical HASP installation might have 60-80 entries in use ... so the TUCC code could define up to 170-190 network nodes).
The VNET code had to be cleanly layered with gateway-like functionality and support both native VNET drivers as well as gateway drivers that would talk to HASP/JES2. As the HASP/JES2 evolved, it became even more convoluted ... since the HASP/JES2 network support code was so intertwined with rest of its operations ... traffice between two different HASP/JES2 nodes at different releases could result in HASP/JES2 crash bringing down the whole operating system.
Internally, the VNET gateway function had to be expanded so that there were large library of HASP/JES2 drivers ... with the specific driver started that corresponded to the HASP/JES2 level at the other end of the link. It became the responsibilty of the VNET HASP/JES2 drivers to convert traffic into a canonical form and then translate into the specific form required by the HASP/JES2 on the other end of the link (eventually HASP/JES2 systems couldn't be trusted to directly communicate with each other, requiring intermediate VNET nodes ... unless the installation tightly synchronized all the release levels).
Internal network also quickly exceeded the 170-190 HASP/JES2 limitation ... and HASP/JES2 implementation would also discard traffic if either the origin node or the destination node wasn't in its local table. The combination of all the factors, pretty much limited HASP/JES2 to boundary nodes.
At the 1jan83 great change-over from arpanet to internetworking protocol there were possibly 100 IMP nodes and around 255 hosts ... 1983 was when the internal network passed 1000 nodes. Internal network was larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until possibly late '85 or early '86. Part of the reason was requirement for IMP nodes which was pretty limited ... 1jan83 moved to internetworking protocol but also eliminated the IMP requirement.
Ed's wiki entry references this old post of mine ... which give some
of the internal network 1983 activity ... including a list of all
corporate locations that had one or more new network nodes added
during 1983.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
for other topic drift ... my RFC index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
in times gone by, Postel use to let me do part of STD1
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 23 July, 2012 Subject: Study: One in Five Firms Misrepresent Earnings Blog: Google+re:
Wonder what happened to Sarbanes-Oxley and SEC? Possibly even GAO started to think SEC wasn't doing anything and started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings (even showing uptic after SOX).
Study: One in Five Firms Misrepresent Earnings
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/study-one-in-five-firms-misrepresent-earnings-20120723
rhetoric during passage of sarbanes-oxley was that auditors and executives would do jail time if financial filings weren't correct. More serious people just claimed that it was full-employment gift for auditors and that possibly the only part that might make any difference was the whistle-blower section
some of the GAO reports on public company fraudulent financial filings
(in theory under SOX, the auditors and the executives would all be
doing jail time)
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-03-395R .
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-06-678 .
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-06-1079sp
Middle of last decade, I was at EU conference of corporate CEOs and exchange presidents on subject of SOX audit costs leaking into Europe. I just repeated comments that the whole audit thing was primarily a gift to the audit industry.
During congressional hearings into Madoff, the person that had tried unsuccessfsully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff (Madoff turned himself in, which finally forced SEC to do something) testified that whistle-blowers turn up 13 times more fraud than audits ... and that the SEC didn't have a TIP hotline ... but SEC did have a hotline for corporations to complain about audits.
recent posts mentioning GAO reports, Madoff hearings, and/or
whistle-blowers:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#5 We are on the brink of a historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#18 SEC v. Citigroup, How to Avoid (Greater) Disaster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#26 What's your favorite quote on "accountability"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#70 Regulatory Agency logo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#44 What's the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#54 The New Age Bounty Hunger -- Showdown at the SEC Corral
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#0 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#4 Bank of America Fined $1 Billion for Mortgage Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#13 Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#25 Goldman Sachs P.R. Chief's Accidental Exit Interview
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#36 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#54 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#12 Gordon Gekko Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#16 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#23 Are mothers naturally better at OODA because they always have the Win in mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#57 speculation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#25 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#66 Predator GE: We Bring Bad Things to Life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#74 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#84 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#86 The Dangers of High-Frequency Trading; Wall Street's Speed Freaks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#6 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#20 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#78 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#36 UH-OH: $220 Million May Be Missing From Brokerage
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 23 July, 2012 Subject: Study: One in Five Firms Misrepresent Earnings Blog: Google+
re:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/102794881687002297268/posts/KWmyZ1mZnhX
NEIL BAROFSKY: The Treasury Betrayed Its Promise To American Homeowners
http://www.businessinsider.com/neil-barofsky-bloomberg-column-2012-7
from Confidence Men
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-Education-ebook/dp/B0089LOKKS/
... the economic "A-team" helped get the president elected and in the
"japan-or-sweden" solution they were going to choose "sweden" ... but
they were also going to hold those on wallstreet accountable ... the
president then appoints the "B-team" which selects "japan" solution
(many also participated in the bubble and were not going to hold those
responsible accountable)
...
aka the people selected to fix the situation were chosen from the same crowd responsible for the problem
recent posts mentioning confidence men:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#17 What's your favorite quote on "accountability"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#21 Zombie Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#44 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#47 Avoiding a lost decade
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#48 Fed's image tarnished by newly released documents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#72 Chris Dodd's SOPA crusading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#43 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#2 Occupy the SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#5 Too big not to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#19 Occupy the SEC Pitches An Extreme Makeover of Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#63 The Economist's Take on Financial Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#13 The White House and Mortgage Fraud: So Far It's All Talk, No Action
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#66 Predator GE: We Bring Bad Things to Life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#67 Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#83 Why Can't Obama Bring Wall Street to Justice?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#9 JPM LOSES $2 BILLION USD!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#30 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#48 Owl: China Swamps US Across the Board -- Made in China Computer Chips Have Back Doors, 45 Other "Ways & Means" Sucking Blood from US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#56 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#25 US economic update. Everything that follows is a result of what you see here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#31 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#36 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#37 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#64 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#77 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#6 Good article. Friday discussion type
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 23 Jul 2012 15:55:54 -0700glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
I was going to get something like $20M from NSFNET for NSFNET backbone
... we already had T1 and faster links running internally. Then the
budget got cut and plans for the NSFNET backbone got reorged ... some
amount of what went on in this old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
a NSFNET backbone T1 RFP was released (calling for T1 links) and internal politics prevented us from bidding. The director of NSF wrote the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO),, trying to help ... but that just made the internal politics worse (as did comments about what we already had running was at least five yrs ahead of all bid submissions).
The final winning bid was only able to put in 440kbit/sec links (not T1) ... and then somewhat to try and meet the letter of the RFP put in T1 trunks with telco multiplexors (running multiple 440kbit/sec links over T1 trunks) ... I would make derogatory references that they might be able to call it a T5 network since some of the T1 trunks may have, in turned, be multiplexed over T5 trunks.
The communication group was also generating a lot of mis-information
about SNA applicable to NSFNET T1 backbone ... even tho SNA products
only had support for 56kbit/sec link. somebody collected a bunch
of communication group mis-information and redistributed ... small
part reproduced here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
some past posts mentioning having T1 and faster links already running:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
We were having some custom hardware built on the other side of the
pacific and friday before I was to make a visit, the communication
group sent out an announcement for a new "high-speed" discussion
group with the following definitions:
low-speed: <9.6kbits
medium-speed: 19.2kbits
high-speed : 56kbits
very high-speed: 1.5mbits
Monday morning in conference room on the other side of the pacific
was the following definitions:
low-speed: <20mbits
medium-speed: 100mbits
high-speed: 200-300mbits
very high-speed: >600mbits
it was rather interesting since the communication group was claiming
customers didn't need/want T1 until sometime in the 90s. They had done
study of customer 37x5 "fat pipes" (multiple parallel 56kbit links
simulating faster single link. They plotted number of customer 2-link,
3-link, 4-link, etc and found it dropped to zero by six-links (aka six
parallel 56kbit links) ... justification for communication group not
having products supporting faster than 56kbit/sec. What they failed to
mention was most telcos tariffed single T1 link at about the same as
five or six 56kbit links. Customers wanting more than about 200kbits
just got real T1 link and switched to support from some other vendor
(trivial survey turned up 200 such T1 customers at time when
communication group was claiming no customer wanted T1 for another
6-8yrs).
later the communication group cobbled together 3737 kludge, sort of able
to do T1 ... it would simulate a local channel-to-channel and would
immediately do ACKs to host vtam ... as if traffic had already reached
destination ... spoofing the host vtam trying to reach T1 thruput. a
couple recent posts with old email from 1988 discussing 3737:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#75 We list every company in the world that has a mainframe computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#77 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 23 Jul 2012 18:06:16 -0700jcewing@ACM.ORG (Joel C. Ewing) writes:
regarding the $20M ... the original was coming out of the supercomputing
center funding to link together the centers. then things changed when
that budget got cut. old email about getting $20M (before the cut)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#email860915b
for "HSDT" ... name I had given collection of "high-speed" activities I
was doing internally (and maybe not so internally) ... some old hsdt
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
more mention that I was going to get $20M from NSF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#email860915
reference to director of NSF sending letter to corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#email860417
The original program announcement was 28Mar1986, reproduced in this
post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#12
this old email has 3Dec1986 announcement about NSF budget getting cut
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#email861208
the RFP was finally awarded 24Nov1987 for $11.2M (but as previously referenced, I was prevented from bidding ... even over objections of director of NSF).
I've mentioned several times there were additional reasons for the non-commercial AUPs (acceptable use policies). At the time telcos had huge fixed cost covered by use tarriffs (including bytes transferred). There was enormous amount of (unused) dark fiber ... but there was big chicken&egg situation. Without drastic reduction in use charges, there weren't going to be the appearance of the big bandwidth hungry applications. Straight significant reduction in the use charges, it might be a decade before the use reached a level that covered fixed operating costs (i.e. large deficit operating in the red).
Estimate was that actually closer to $50M was provided in various bandwidth for the NSFNET backbone ... for closed technology incubator (spurring growth of bandwidth hungry applications) ... with the non-commercial AUP eliminating any commerical paying traffic moving over.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:07:02 -0400re:
two x-over posts from bit.listserv.ibm-main (gateway from ibm-main
mailing list) ... got into NSFNET backbone as operational basis for
modern internet and role of Al Gore providing funding from congress
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#87 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#88 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
I was going to get something like $20M from NSFNET for NSFNET backbone
... we already had T1 and faster links running internally. Then the
budget got cut and plans for the NSFNET backbone got reorged ... some
amount of what went on in this old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
a NSFNET backbone T1 RFP was released (calling for T1 links) and internal politics prevented us from bidding. The director of NSF wrote the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO),, trying to help ... but that just made the internal politics worse (as did comments about what we already had running was at least five yrs ahead of all bid submissions).
The final winning bid was only able to put in 440kbit/sec links (not T1) ... and then somewhat to try and meet the letter of the RFP put in T1 trunks with telco multiplexors (running multiple 440kbit/sec links over T1 trunks) ... I would make derogatory references that they might be able to call it a T5 network since some of the T1 trunks may have, in turned, be multiplexed over T5 trunks.
The communication group was also generating a lot of mis-information
about SNA applicable to NSFNET T1 backbone ... even tho SNA products
only had support for 56kbit/sec link. somebody collected a bunch of
communication group mis-information and redistributed ... small part
reproduced here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
some past posts mentioning having T1 and faster links already running:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
We were having some custom hardware built on the other side of the
pacific and friday before I was to make a visit, the communication group
sent out an announcement for a new "high-speed" discussion group with
the following definitions:
low-speed: <9.6kbits
medium-speed: 19.2kbits
high-speed : 56kbits
very high-speed: 1.5mbits
Monday morning in conference room on the other side of the pacific was
the following definitions:
low-speed: <20mbits
medium-speed: 100mbits
high-speed: 200-300mbits
very high-speed: >600mbits
it was rather interesting since the communication group was claiming
customers didn't need/want T1 until sometime in the 90s. They had done
study of customer 37x5 "fat pipes" (multiple parallel 56kbit links
simulating faster single link. They plotted number of customer 2-link,
3-link, 4-link, etc and found it dropped to zero by six-links (aka six
parallel 56kbit links) ... justification for communication group not
having products supporting faster than 56kbit/sec. What they failed to
mention was most telcos tariffed single T1 link at about the same as
five or six 56kbit links. Customers wanting more than about 200kbits
just got real T1 link and switched to support from some other vendor
(trivial survey turned up 200 such T1 customers at time when
communication group was claiming no customer wanted T1 for another
6-8yrs).
later the communication group cobbled together 3737 kludge, sort of able
to do T1 ... it would simulate a local channel-to-channel and would
immediately do ACKs to host vtam ... as if traffic had already reached
destination ... spoofing the host vtam trying to reach T1 thruput. a
couple recent posts with old email from 1988 discussing 3737:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#75 We list every company in the world that has a mainframe computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#77 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
regarding the $20M ... the original was coming out of the supercomputing
center funding to link together the centers. then things changed when
that budget got cut. old email about getting $20M (before the cut)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#email860915b
for "HSDT" ... name I had given collection of "high-speed" activities I
was doing internally (and maybe not so internally) ... some old hsdt
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
more mention that I was going to get $20M from NSF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#email860915
reference to director of NSF sending letter to corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#email860417
The original program announcement was 28Mar1986, reproduced in this
post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#12
this old email has 3Dec1986 announcement about NSF budget getting cut
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#email861208
the RFP was finally awarded 24Nov1987 for $11.2M (but as previously referenced, I was prevented from bidding ... even over objections of director of NSF).
I've mentioned several times there were additional reasons for the non-commercial AUPs (acceptable use policies). At the time telcos had huge fixed cost covered by use tarriffs (including bytes transferred). There was enormous amount of (unused) dark fiber ... but there was big chicken&egg situation. Without drastic reduction in use charges, there weren't going to be the appearance of the big bandwidth hungry applications. Straight significant reduction in the use charges, it might be a decade before the use reached a level that covered fixed operating costs (i.e. large deficit operating in the red).
Estimate was that actually closer to $50M was provided in various bandwidth for the NSFNET backbone ... for closed technology incubator (spurring growth of bandwidth hungry applications) ... w/o the non-commercial AUP eliminating any commerical paying traffic moving over.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Jul 2012 07:10:27 -0700shmuel+gen@PATRIOT.NET (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
another part of the issue was that RSCS had native vnet drivers and then NJI (hasp/jes2) drivers. During period that BITNET was growing in the mid-80s, they stopped shipping the native vnet drivers ... leaving only the NJI drivers ... although the native vnet drivers continued to be used on the internal network because they were much more efficient ... at least up until the change-over of the internal network to SNA in the late 80s.
arpanet used IMPs for network nodes that did packet-based communication ... but the connected hosts did host-to-host end-to-end connection protocol. In the a.f.c. thread it was pointed out that even by 1975, it was recognized that it wasn't scaling. A comparison from the period was post-office analogy ... to get something from new york city to fairbanks alaska ... required that all the post offices between NYC and fairbanks and alaska to be up and operational simultaneously ... which wasn't a requirement for RSCS. RSCS traffic would eventually get from NYC to fairbanks ... even if there was only intermediate connectivity between the intermediate nodes (including if there was *never* full end-to-end connectivity).
For lots of reasons, the internal network was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until either late '85 or early '86 ... the internet growth and passing internal network primarily because of the switch-over to internetworking protocol on 1jan1983.
At the time of the 1983 switch-over there were approximately 100 IMP nodes and possibly 255 hosts ... while the internal network was in the process of passing 1000
misc. past posts mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
misc. past posts mentioning bitnet (&/or earn)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
in the late 80s there was lot of mis-information from the communication
group (not only about its applicability to the nsfnet backbone) involved
in justification for converting internal network to sna
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306
even though by that time, it would have been much more efficient and cost-effective to have converted rscs drivers to tcp/ip (in much the same way that was done for "bitnet-II").
the vm370 tcp/ip product was available ... even tho there was some
performance issues (limited to about 44kbytes/sec using nearly whole
3090 processor) ... but I would be shortly be doing the changes to
support rfc1044 ... and in some tuning tests at cray research got
channel thruput between 4341 and cray using only modest amount of 4341
processor (possibly 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction
executed) ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
note ... later the vm370 tcp/ip product was ported to mvs by adding simulation for some of the vm370 functions.
piece of recent post from a.f.c. about the requirement for doing NJI drivers in RSCS:
Internally between mostly campus hasp systems, they were running some support that came from triangle university ("TUCC" in cols 68-71 source code). The implementation was intertwined with standard HASP support and not cleanly layered ... and node definitions were done by taking empty entries in the HASP psuedo-device table (255 entry table used for hasp for psuedo unit-record devices ... typical HASP installation might have 60-80 entries in use ... so the TUCC code could define up to 170-190 network nodes).
The VNET code had to be cleanly layered with gateway-like functionality and support both native VNET drivers as well as gateway drivers that would talk to HASP/JES2. As the HASP/JES2 evolved, it became even more convoluted ... since the HASP/JES2 network support code was so intertwined with rest of its operations ... traffice between two different HASP/JES2 nodes at different releases could result in HASP/JES2 crash bringing down the whole operating system.
Internally, the VNET gateway function had to be expanded so that there were large library of HASP/JES2 drivers ... with the specific driver started that corresponded to the HASP/JES2 level at the other end of the link. It became the responsibilty of the VNET HASP/JES2 drivers to convert traffic into a canonical form and then translate into the specific form required by the HASP/JES2 on the other end of the link (eventually HASP/JES2 systems couldn't be trusted to directly communicate with each other, requiring intermediate VNET nodes ... unless the installation tightly synchronized all the release levels).
Internal network also quickly exceeded the 170-190 HASP/JES2 limitation
... and HASP/JES2 implementation would also discard traffic if either
the origin node or the destination node wasn't in its local table. The
combination of all the factors, pretty much limited HASP/JES2 to
boundary nodes.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
...
note that JES2 eventually did expand support to 999 nodes ... but that
was only after the internal network had passed 1000 nodes ... some
reference to internal network exceeding 1000 nodes in 1983 (also
referenced in the edson wiki entry):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
It was in the late 80s that the communication group was generating a lot
of mis-information about justification for converting internal network
to SNA ... as well as its applicability to internet (as previously
mentioned). It was also in this period that a senior disk engineer got a
talk scheduled at the world-wide, internal-only annual communication
group conference ... and opened the talk with the statement that the
communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the
disk division. The scenario was that the communication group was
attempting to preseve its dumb terminal (vtam) paradigm (including
terminal emulation install base) and had stranglehold on the datacenter
(strategic "ownership" for everything that cross the datacenter walls);
the disk division was seeing the leading edge of data fleeing the
datacenter to more distributed computing friendly platforms in the
drop-off in disk sales. The disk division had come up with several
products to address the opportunity ... which were constantly being
vetoed by the communication group.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: printer history Languages influenced by PL/1 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.lang.pl1 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:23:33 -0400glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
303x was a quick&dirty effort to get something out quick ... after
future system effort had failed ... during the FS period lots of 370
efforts were suspended and/or killed off (and is credited with allowing
clone processors to get market foothold). some past posts mentioning
FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
303x channel director was 370/158 engine with only the integrated channel microcode (and no 370 microcode)
3031 was two 370/158 engines, one dedicated to "channel director" running just the integrated channel microcode and another engine running just the 370 microcode (a 3031 multiprocessor being four 370/158 engines, two channel directors and two 370 processor).
3032 was 370/168 reconfigured to use channel director as its external channels
3033 started out being 370/168 logic remapped to 20% faster chips that also had 10times circuits/chip ... extra circuits originally gone unused. during development there was some remapping of logic to consolidate more onchip operations ... eventually getting 3033 up to nearly 50% faster than 168. 3033 also used the channel director for its i/o.
370/158 integrated channel microcode supported 6 channels. for 3032 and 3033 configurations with more than 6 channels required multiple "channel directors"
some other details of future system, 3033, and 3081 (also quick&dirty
effort, reusing some FS technology)
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
this post has old 4341, 3031, & 158 benchmark shows 3031 increased
processing compared to 158 (since the engine was now dedicated to 370
processing)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#0
as an aside ... 4341 also had integrated channel ... but the 4341 processor engine was so much faster ... that with slight tweaks the 4341 supports 3380 3mbyte channel speeds ... something that the 370/158 engine was incapable of.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: printer history Languages influenced by PL/1 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.lang.pl1 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:46:32 -0400hancock4 writes:
the 370/158 engine manufacturing line had achieved an astonishing level of efficiency ... incremental cost of every additional 370/158 off the line was unbelievably small (imagine some of the old numbers for incremental cost of building additional automobile).
note 370/168-1 to 370/168-3 was similar doubling of cache size also ... but resulted in significant problems. the bit chosen for indexing additional cache lines was the 2k bit ... and therefor when 370/168-3 was running in 2k-byte page mode (dos/vs, vs1) ... it only used half the cache (because the 2k bit was now part of the virtual address ... all the othere cache index bits were low-order bits which were the same in both virtual and real address). As a result for dos/vs & vs1, 168-3 had the same performance as 168-1. The problem was even worse for vm370 running either dos/vs &/or vs1 in virtual machine. vm370 normally used 4k-byte page mode logic ... which used the full 32kbyte cache. However, when switching to dos/vs or vs1 virtual machine running with 2k-byte pages ... it used 2k-byte "shadow" tables. In the switch between 4k-byte and 2k-byte virtual page mode ... there would be full cache flush because of the different mapping ... with dos/vs & vs1 running under vm370 ... this would be happening at very high frequency ... some number of vm370 customers (running dos/vs &/or vs1) complained upgrading from 168-1 to 168-3 ... performance degrading to worse than 168-1.
something similar would happen for doubling cache for 158-3 to 3031.
the remapping of 168-3 logic to newer/faster chips started out 20% faster than 168-3 for 3033 .... but eventually some logic tuning got it up to 50% faster ... 168-3 was approx. 3mip machine and 3033 was approx. 4.5mip machine (depending on typical application cache hit ratios).
as sowa's references 3081 was kludged FS machine using the FS machine
370 emulator (enormous increase in number of circuits compared to all
other 370 machine implementations regardless of the vendor).
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
First 3081 out the door was 3081-D with supposedly two five-mip processors ... but lots of benchmarks had 3081-d processors running slower than 3033. Then similar to 168-1 to 168-3, amount of cache was doubled for 3081-K which supposedly resulting in two 7mip processors (i.e. larger cache, results in lower cache miss / higher cache hit ratios ... increasing the effective instruction execution rate ... aka fewer instruction stall from cache miss waiting for storage). However, some number of benchmarks had 3081-K processor about the same or ownly slightly faster than 3033 processor.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Jul 2012 14:12:12 -0700Stokes@INTERCHIP.DE (David Stokes) writes:
early days of desktop computing was stand-alone machines ... with some number of applications (like games) evolving that effectively took over whole machine. later small business (safe) local-area-networks also evolved for desktop machines. in both these environments, desktop machines didn't have any countermeasures for attacks or compromises.
for the small business, safe, local-area-networks ... convention developed where automatic scripting (typically basic) was added to application-specific (mostly business) data files ... these files would be exchanged on the small business, safe, LAN environment ... where applications would automatically execute the embedded scripts included in the data files.
at the 1996 MSDC conference at Moscone ... all the banners were proclaiming support for the internet ... however he subtheme in all the sessions were "protecting your investment" ... basically paradigm of automatic execution of embedded scripts in application data files would continue ... and there would be simple retargeting of the small, safe LAN support to the internet (with no additional countermeasures for attacks or compromises)
I've periodically used the analogy of going out the airlock in open space w/o a spacesuit.
Before he disappeared, Jim Gray had con'ed me into interviewing for position of chief security architect in Redmond. The interview went on over a period of serveral weeks but we were never able to come to agreement ... i even used the above description describing the situation (lack of countermeasures) during the interview process.
a few past posts mentioning 1996 MSDC at Moscone:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#26 realtors (and GM, too!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#63 who pioneered the WEB
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#66 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#37 (slightly OT - Linux) Did IBM bet on the wrong OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#36 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#9 The IETF is probably the single element in the global equation of technology competition than has resulted in the INTERNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#40 The Great Cyberheist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#50 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#58 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#15 Identifying Latest zOS Fixes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#57 Are Tablets a Passing Fad?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#59 The lost art of real programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#141 With cloud computing back to old problems as DDos attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#81 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#93 Where are all the old tech workers?
and few past posts using empty space w/o spacesuit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#77 ZeuS attacks mobiles in bank SMS bypass scam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#19 E-commerce and Internet Security: Why Walls Don't Work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#15 Identifying Latest zOS Fixes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#59 The lost art of real programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#141 With cloud computing back to old problems as DDos attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#93 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#47 You Don't Need a Cyber Attack to Take Down The North American Power Grid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#18 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#32 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#37 Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Jul 2012 17:17:32 -0700jwglists@GMAIL.COM (John Gilmore) writes:
late 90s, EU had FINREAD standard as countermeasure to a long list of vulnerabilities related to internet-connected desktops ... including compromised desktops.
some number of vendors were pushing hardware (chip) tokens for authentication for many kinds of fraud. approx. start of the century, one of the plastic magstripe payment cards included chip in the card and provided free give-away of serial-port card readers. The enormous customer support costs associated with serial-port card readers resulted in rapidly spreading opinion in the industry that hardware tokens weren't practical in consumer market. As a result there was pullback/abandoning the consumer oriented chipcard-based programs in the industry ... including the EU FINREAD effort.
We participated in after action review of the situation with some of the people in redmond ... identifying the problem was with serial-port devices ... not the chipcards. Apparently in few short years between online dial-up banking moving to internet and the give-away serial-port cardreaders, the institutional knowledge about the enormous serial-port cunsumer support costs evaporated (which also was major motivation for USB development).
Along the way, the online dialup commercial banking/cash-management did move to the internet ... and the businesses have experienced all the exploits and vulnerabilities previously predicated. A number of times in the past decade, it has been recommended that businesses have a dedicated PC for online banking that is *NEVER* used for any other purpose (semi reverything to the days of online dialup banking)
There has recently been a number of legal actions regarding liability
for such exploits ... some number of recent posts in linkedin financial
fraud on the subject:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#18 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#32 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#0 Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#8 Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#59 Bank Sues Customer Over ACH/Wire Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#72 Bank Sues Customer Over ACH/Wire Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#73 Is it time to consider a stand-alone PC for online banking?
past posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#83 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#84 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#87 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#88 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#89 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#90 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#93 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: printer history Languages influenced by PL/1 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.lang.pl1 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:18:50 -0400hancock4 writes:
redoing manufacturing line can be major expense ... and the first one off the line is really costly ... if you expense the whole line on the price of that first unit. however, every incremental unit off the line approaches the cost of the raw materials.
manual costs to refurbish an old unit can be greater than just running automated line for new one.
modern day computer chips can have billions of circuits and enormously complex and the upfront design cost to design such a new chip can be significant. also, building new fab for latest smaller circuits can be over billion dollars for each newer generation. then things are setup to turn out billions of such chips ... once the intial investment is recovered ... then incremental cost for each additional chip is relatively small.
current generation, maximum configured z196 with 80 processor goes for $28M and is rated at 50BIPS. by comparison, e5-2600 ($560,000/BIPS) is rated at 527BIPS and IBM lists base price at $1815 for e5-2600 blade (i.e. e5-2600 server blade has over ten times the processing power of fully configured z196 and $3.44/BIPS).
I would claim that z196 and e5 chips are relatively equivalent complexity and (incremental) manufacturing cost. Recent annual "mainframe" revenue seems to about the equivalent of 130-140 fully configured z196 systems.
The big cloud mega-datacenters are doing hundreds of thousands of server blades ... each.
misc. past posts mentioning z196 &/or e5-2600
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#20 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#23 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#24 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#56 IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#59 IBM's z196 Article at RWT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#78 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#80 Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#90 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#91 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#28 New IBM mainframe instructions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#30 New IBM mainframe instructions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#41 Are rotating register files still a bad idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#57 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#2 NASA unplugs their last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#35 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#41 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#50 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#64 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#3 NASA unplugs their last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#4 Memory versus processor speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#94 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#99 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#105 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#0 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#4 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#7 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#19 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#36 Should IBM allow the use of Hercules as z system emulator?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#38 Should IBM allow the use of Hercules as z system emulator?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#4 Think You Know The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#20 Mainframes Warming Up to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#35 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#52 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#62 What are your experiences with Amdahl Computers and Plug-Compatibles?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#70 How many cost a cpu second?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#11 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#15 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#16 Think You Know The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#84 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#88 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#89 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#95 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#1 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The older Hardware school Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:25:53 -0400nedbrek <nedbrek@yahoo.com> writes:
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 25 Jul 2012 06:57:22 -0700Stokes@INTERCHIP.DE (David Stokes) writes:
IBM research did a study/paper/presentation "Thirty Years Later: Lessons
from the Multics Security Evaluation" (one of the references was
no buffer overflow vulnerabilities)
http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf
security evaluation paper
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/karg74.pdf
About a decade ago, the exploits had shifted to approx. 1/3rd buffer overflow vulnerability (related to c-language features), 1/3rd automatic scripting vulnerability (previously mentioned from 1996 Moscone MSDC), and 1/3rd various forms of social engineering (enticing individuals to executing malware applications which would install exploit code into their machines). Earlier in the thread, I also mentioned in the 90s, there was EU FINREAD standard that was countermeasure for malware compromised internet-connected PCs (but various unfortunate circumstances resulted in abandoning the effort).
Part of the issue is that there is a fundamental different security paradigm for desktop machines that operate stand-alone and/or on small, safe networks and require no security countermeasures (especially those with heritage of applications, like games, that have convention of taking over the machine) ... and internet appliances ... nearly diamtetrically opposing security requirements (my early reference to going out into open space w/o spacesuit).
old post of some work I did on CVE database (2623 reported vulnerability
descriptions)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#43
I was trying to categorize CVE vulnerability&exploit reports. I talked to the CVE people about suggestion for requiring more structure in the reports ... but at the time, their response was they were lucky to even get the unstructured descriptions.
earlier posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#83 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#84 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#87 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#88 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#89 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#90 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#93 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#94 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 25 Jul 2012 07:12:46 -0700John.McKown@HEALTHMARKETS.COM (McKown, John) writes:
cp67 not just npg ... but also various other places ... also gone 404
but lives on at the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
as undergraduate in the 60s, I was doing lots of operating system stuff and even got requests from vendor to do certain things. I didn't learn about those guys until a long time later ... but in retrospect, some of the change requests were of the nature that they may have originated from such organizations.
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