From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The WSJ and Barron's Apologists for the Banksters Peddle Wallison's Fables Date: 25 May 2015 Blog: Google+re:
The WSJ and Barron's Apologists for the Banksters Peddle Wallison's
Fables
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/05/the-wsj-and-barrons-apologists-for-the-banksters-peddle-wallisons-fables.html
as an aside, the author of above was regulator during S&L crisis that Keating sent out a memo to "kill black". Black does slightly muddle the "liar loan" theme .... w/o the triple-A ratings, they still had limited market ... and we were asked to further counter "liar loans" by improving the integrity of the supporting documents. It wasn't until they found they could pay for triple-A rating (when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A) ... that there was significant change. Triple-A trumps documents and they could start doing no-documentation "liar loans". Triple-A ratings also opens the market to the large operations restricted to only dealing in "safe" investments ... and possibly the single largest factor in there being over $27T done between 2001 & 2008.
Note that if buying triple-A ratings wasn't enough, they also start doing securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A rating and sell to their customers. Then they would take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy loans).
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
recent thread on related theme:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#75 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#78 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#79 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#80 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:13:00 -0700rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) writes:
I've periodically conjectured that slow-start windows were used because many of the platforms at the time had extremely primitive timer capability.
the same summer that slow-start was presented at IETF meeting ... ACM SIGCOMM had paper showing how slow-start was non-stable in multi-hop network as well as bursty traffic ... also returning ACKs could easily bunch up and multiple ACKs arrive simultaneously ... opening window for multiple back-to-back packet transmission ... overruning intermediate nodes (part of rate-based flow control would be interval between transmitting packets).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:38:16 -0700Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
We did trivial survey finding 200 customers with T1 links ... what happened was by the time customer needed 250kbits or more ... they went to full T1 and a non-IBM interface box.
Not being able to continue obfuscating customer use of T1 ... they finally came out with 3737. The next problem was mainframe SNA/VTAM couldn't keep a (terrestrial) T1 link full (max window and max RU). The 3737 emulated local channel-to-channel adapter to the mainframe SNA/VTAM and had numerous 68k processors and whole boatload of memory. It would immediately ACK RUs to the local SNA/VTAM host and then use more robust networking to the remote 3737. Even at that, 3737 processing overhead still peaked at around 2mbit/sec throughput (full-duplex T1 would be 3mbit/sec aggregate, i.e. 1.5mbit/sec in each direction, EU T1 is 4mbit/sec aggreate, i.e. 2mbit/sec in each direction).
Old 3737 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#880130
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#880606
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#881005
in these posts:
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)?
In HSDT, I had T1 and faster speed links
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
corporate required link encryptors on all corporate links ... and I really hated what I had to pay for T1 link encryptors ... and it was nearly impossible finding faster link encryptors. I then got involved in link adapter that could support multi-megabyte speeds (byte not bit) and could be built for less than $100. At first the corporate crypto group said that it significantly weakened DES encryption. It took me 3months to explain what was going on (significantly strengthened encryption). It was hollow victory because then I was told we could build as many as we wanted ... but there was only one institution in the world that could use them ... they all had to be sent to address in Maryland. It was when I realized there was three kinds of crypto in the world, 1) the kind they don't care about, 2) the kind you can't do, 3) the kind you can only do for them.
previously ref in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#43 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#47 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#55 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 16:44:47 -0700floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) writes:
as mentioned ... working with reed-solomon and cyclomics (had done much of the CDROM reed-solomon standard). they came up with strategy that involved 15/16s reed-solomon FEC ... got about 6orders BER improvement from BER 10**-9 to BER 10**-15. Uncorrectable block in error, selective resend the 1/2 rate Viterbi FEC (rather than the original block) ... with 15/16s reed-solomon FEC. Even if both the original block and the 1/2 rate Viterbi FEC block had uncorrectable (reed-solomon FEC) errors ... there was still high probability that the block could be corrected with combination of two. If link deteriorated with too many blocks in error ... just switch to transmitting 1/2 Viterbi FEC with original block (within 15/16s reed-solomon).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 21:12:16 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
latest from today:
Under pressure, Amazon ends Luxembourg profit funneling
http://www.icij.org/blog/2015/05/under-pressure-amazon-ends-luxembourg-profit-funneling
from the Luxembourg series:
Luxembourg Leaks: Global Companies' Secrets Exposed
http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks
some earlier articles in the series:
New Leak Reveals Luxembourg Tax Deals for Disney, Koch Brothers Empire
http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks/new-leak-reveals-luxembourg-tax-deals-disney-koch-brothers-empire
Explore the Documents: Luxembourg Leaks Database
http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks/explore-documents-luxembourg-leaks-database
Leaked Documents Expose Global Companies' Secret Tax Deals in Luxembourg
http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks/leaked-documents-expose-global-companies-secret-tax-deals-luxembourg
tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax haven, etc. posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
recent posts mentioning luxembourg:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#95 Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#91 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#95 How The Island Of Seychelles Became A Haven For Dirty Money
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#86 Brand-name companies' secret Luxembourg tax deals revealed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#93 Brand-name companies' secret Luxembourg tax deals revealed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#95 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#2 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#6 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#9 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#8 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#52 Report: Tax Evasion, Avoidance Costs United States $100 Billion A Year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#46 Remember 3277?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Remember 3277? Date: 27 May 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
old email from 30yrs ago references proposal to do something for a
certain 3-letter gov. agency (SHARE installation code "CAD")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email840618
referencing some of the work that I had ported from CP67 to VM370
(40yrs ago), only small percentage that then was released to customers
(in the simplification morph from CP67 to VM370, a lot of stuff was
dropped)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430 ..
The specific problem was that in the unnatural things done to VM370 to
improve TPF throughput in virtual machine, they made throughput worse
for nearly every other VM370 customer. recent post mentioning TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#84 ACP/TPF
Somewhat to obfuscate the issue there was some tweaks to VM370 to try and improve performance handling of 3270 I/Os ... which tried to offset some of the performance degradation introduced by the changes for TPF. There was several problems, the original VM370 implementation had a glaring hole which was aggravated when 3270 support was introduced ... and the newer "fixes" just semi-covered up and obfuscated the original bug. Another problem was that installation code "CAD" was a ascii terminal shop and didn't have any 3270s ... so the 3270-specific "fixes" didn't help them at all.
CP67 and VM370 tried to leave a virtual machine in queue when it had
gone into wait state with "high speed" I/O active ... otherwise the
virtual machine was dropped from queue. The "bug" in VM370 was that
the "high-speed" test was based on virtual device type ... while the
original CP67 code was based on real device type. When 3270 support
was added to VM370 they mapped a virtual 3215 low-speed device to a
real 3270 high-speed device ... and as a result there was significant
queue drop/add overhead going on for every 3270 I/O (the original CP67
implementation based on real device type avoided the problem). Also,
the original CMS terminal support did a SIO for every terminal line
output (which would result in queue drop/add with slow-speed
terminal). I changed CMS to chain multiple line write CCWs into single
SIO ... significantly reducing virtual machine simulation (regardless
of the real terminal type, 3270 or ascii). old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#email790329 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email791011b ..
and discussion involving "CAD" installation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email830420
For installation "CAD" they wanted as many of my fixes as possible that were part of the distribution I supported for internal datacenters.
I had done a lot of work as undergraduate in the 60s on dynamic
adaptive resource management that was picked-up and including in CP67
(customers would refer to as "fairshare" scheduling for default
resource management policy or the "wheeler" scheduler). In the
simplification morph from CP67->VM370 it was all dropped.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
Then in the 70s during the FS period (when internal politics were
killing off 370 efforts, credited with giving clone processor makers
market foothold), I continued to work on 360/370 stuff, even
periodically ridiculing FS activity (which wasn't exactly career
enhancing effort). With the death of FS, there was mad rush to get 370
stuff back into the 370 product pipelines, which contributed to
decision to pickup some of the stuff I had been doing and release to
customers.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Now in the 23Jun1969 unbundling announcement they started to charge
for application software but managed to make the case that kernel
software should still be free. With the rise of clone processor
makers, the decision was made to start charging for kernel software
... incrementally as new changes until eventually in the 80s all
kernel software would be charged for. My "resource manager" was
selected as guinea pig for starting kernel software charging and I had
to spend a lot of time with lawyers and business people on kernel
software charging policies.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
Also, some scheduling expert from corporate hdqtrs reviewed it before release and said I didn't have any (manual) tuning parameters ... and that I had to add manual tuning parameters because that was the state of the art ... i.e. MVS had hundreds ... there were regular SHARE presentations on the effects of making (essentially random) changes to MVS parameters. I tried to explain that decade before I spent lots of work on system being able to dynamically adapt w/o needing manual tuning. In any case, he wouldn't sign off until I added manual tuning parameters.
So I made a joke, I added manual tuning parameters with detailed descriptions, formulas and all the source. The "joke" was degrees of freedom ... the dynamic adaptive code had more degrees of freedom to compensate for any manual change.
Early 90s, I'm making IBM customer call at large bank in Hong Kong and as we are riding up the elevator ... a recent graduate asks me if I'm the "wheeler" in the "wheeler scheduler" ... they had studed the "wheeler scheduler" in school. I asked him if that included the "joke".
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: New Line vs. Line Feed Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 28 May 2015 22:43:42 -0700tony@VSE2PDF.COM (Tony Thigpen) writes:
EBCDIC and the P-Bit, The Biggest Computer Goof Ever
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
The culprit was T. Vincent Learson. The only thing for his defense is
that he had no idea of what he had done. It was when he was an IBM Vice
President, prior to tenure as Chairman of the Board, those lofty
positions where you believe that, if you order it done, it actually will
be done. I've mentioned this fiasco elsewhere.
... snip ...
by the father of ASCII
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/FATHEROF.HTM
his history index
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM
some recent refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#19 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#21 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#22 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#37 Subject Unicode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#5 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#13 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#15 50 years of timesharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#63 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#52 Rather nice article on COBOL on Vulture Central
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#78 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#24 Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#29 Special characters for Passwords
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#99 IBM architecture, was Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#4 Migration path for IBM 650 users?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#6 Migration path for IBM 650 users?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#65 16-bit minis, was Floating point
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: U.S. Files Breakup Plan Date: 29 May 2015 Blog: FacebookU.S. Files Breakup Plan
A couple of us were periodically driving the masspike/taconic to POK
for 370 architecture meetings ... I remember somebody taking us
through a section of one of the bldgs where the offices were being
cleared ... there was something like a hall of offices per week was
being converted to paper storage. There was then an issue of floor
loading limit because of the weight of all that paper. a couple
postings in long running thread on the subject in comp.arch &
alt.folklore.computers newsgroups from 2001
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#33 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#38 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#39 ..
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: New Line vs. Line Feed Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 29 May 2015 15:30:13 -0700john.archie.mckown@GMAIL.COM (John McKown) writes:
a little other topic drift from recent IBM antitrust thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#7 U.S. Files Breakup Plan
Other trivia ... also at the scientific center ... past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
GML was invented at the science center in 1969 (G, M, & L are the 1st
letters of the inventor's last name). past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
This is posting by Sowa about GML being used by IBM for documents used
in the antitrust suit
http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2012-04/msg00058.html
from above:
For text that was copied from the original OED, they got GML to produce
exactly the same line breaks and hyphenation. They needed to get it
exactly right in order to aid the proof readers who had to make sure
that the new copy was identical to the old.
The GML-based software in the 1980s was far more flexible than MS Word
is today. Just look at the OED and imagine how you might use MS Word to
match that exactly.
... snip ...
in the mid-60s at science center, CMS script was implementation of CTSS runoff using "dot" formating controls ... then later, script was enhanced to support GML tag processing. in late 70s, a vm370 SE in the LA branch ... did implementation of CMS script on trs80 (NewScript)
and periodically mentioned ... before ms/dos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
there was seattle computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products
before seattle computer there was cp/m,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
before cp/m, kildall worked with cp67/cms at npg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Postgraduate_School
other Sowa trivia ... on the failure of FS and how poorly 3081 compared
to competition
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
some Future System pots
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Why do we keep losing? Date: 29 May 2015 Blog: Slightly East of NewWhy do we keep losing?
references
Why the West loses so many wars, and how we can learn to win.
http://fabiusmaximus.com/2015/05/28/why-we-lose-wars-and-how-we-can-win-85056/
...
"Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan
Wars" starts with discussion of desert storm and lasting 42 days of
conflict ... lots about all the forces in the land war. However,
ground campaign only lasts 100hrs (4days)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
"Why We Lost" does mention precision bombing ... but the GAO air campaign effectiveness study says that significant portion of Iraqi armor was destroyed by A10 30mm fire ... and that Iraqis started walking away from their tanks because they were such sitting ducks. All the description of the tanks destroyed during the 100hrs of the land campaign fail to mention how many of the tanks had anybody home.
Other discussions of Iraq round 2 ... has Iraq had learned to minimize targets for US air power.
As others have mentioned, objective is "perpetual war" and "keeping
the money flowing" ... which goes along with the Success of Failure
theme. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
"why we lost" makes it sound like Iraq1 was ground war even tho it was
only 100hrs (of the 42 days)
https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Lost-Generals-Afghanistan-ebook/dp/B00KEWAP04/
advisers providing WMDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
in the iran/iraq war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
were there with Bush1 for Iraq1. Sat. photo recon analyst warns that
Iraq is marshaling forces for Kuwait invasion; administration says
that Saddam told them he would do no such thing ... administration
proceeds to discredit the analyst. Analyst then warns that Iraq is
marshaling forces for Saudi invasion ... now the administration is
forced to choose between Iraq and Saudi.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
and still there with Bush2 for Iraq2 fabricate WMD
justification. cousin of the white house chief of staff Card ... was
dealing with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had
been decommissioned, notifies her cousin, Powell and others; then gets
locked up in military hospital
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
from the law of unintended consequences, for Iraq2, the were told to
bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs ... when they get around to going
back, more than a million metric tons have evaporated. They then start
seeing large artillery shell IEDs, even taking out Abram M1s
https://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-ebook/dp/B004IATD6U/
they eventually find the decommissioned WMDs tracing back to US in the
80s ... that information is initially classified
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 10:29:45 -0700The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
... also Google+
https://plus.google.com/+LynnWheeler/posts/XxZwqrxK83D
In late 90s, Postel (long time "RFC" editor, he use to let me do part of
STD1) invited me to give a talk on "Why Internet isn't commercial grade
dataprocessing" at ISI and the USC network/e-commerce graduate program
students were also invited (it was standing room only in the largest ISI
room). Part of the talk was based on end-to-end threat analysis of tcp/ip
that we had done as part of its use of HA/CMP ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
trivia ... reference to HA/CMP scale-up meeting in Ellison's conference
room Jan1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
within a few weeks of the meeting, scale-up work was transferred and
announced as IBM supercomputer and we were told we couldn't work on
anything with more than four processors ... contributing to decision to
leave. some old email from the period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
Later, two of the people mentioned in the meeting have (also) left and
are at a small client/server startup responsible for something called
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". Part of the effort was a "payment
gateway", sits on the internet and handles transactions between the
ecommerce servers and the payment networks. I've pointed out (with
respect to payment gateway), that to take a well designed, well written
and tested application and turn it into business critical service can
take 4-10 times the original effort. We had final signoff on everything
related to payment gateway ... but could only advise and recommend on
the front-end client/server part. Several recommendations that we made
regarding the client/server part were almost immediately violated and
contribute to exploits that continue to this day. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
In the 80s, we had been working with director of NSF and NSF
supercomputer centers on interconnecting the centers. Originally we were
supposed to get $20M, but then Congress cuts the budget and some number
of other things happen. Finally an RFP is released ... largely based on
our earlier work. Unfortunately internal politics prevents us from
bidding. The NSF director tries to help, writing a letter to the company
3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO),
but that just makes the internal
politics worse. Later as regional networks connect to the NSF
supercomputer sites, it morphs into the NSFNET backbone, precursor to
the modern internet. Some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
past posts mentioning the 4-10 times effort theme:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#75 Test and Set (TS) vs Compare and Swap (CS)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#91 Buffer overflow
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#93 Buffer overflow
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#11 Wanted: the SOUNDS of classic computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#62 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#15 A Dark Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#37 The BASIC Variations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#8 Mars Rover Not Responding
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#48 Automating secure transactions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#20 Vintage computers are better than modern crap !
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#49 "Perfect" or "Provable" security both crypto and non-crypto?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#23 Systems software versus applications software definitions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#63 Systems software versus applications software definitions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#64 Systems software versus applications software definitions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#40 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#42 Development as Configuration
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#26 Data communications over telegraph circuits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#20 The System/360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#37 Is computer history taught now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#51 IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#78 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#10 The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#76 PSI MIPS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#77 PSI MIPS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#23 Outsourcing loosing steam?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#54 Industry Standard Time To Analyze A Line Of Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#53 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#41 IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#50 fraying infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#53 Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#33 Mainframe Project management
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#20 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#35 Builders V. Breakers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#48 How much knowledge should a software architect have regarding software security?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#0 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#16 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#60 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#27 PDCA vs. OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#67 Somewhat off-topic: comp-arch.net cloned, possibly hacked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#44 Faster, Better, Cheaper: Why Not Pick All Three?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#31 DRAM is the new Bulk Core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#13 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#86 Economic Failures of HTTPS Encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#117 Are we programmed to stop at the 'first' right answer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#146 LEO
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 11:32:32 -0700re:
SE training use to be sort of journeyman process as part of large team
at customer site. after the 23jun1969 unbundling announcement and
starting to charge for software, SE services, etc ... they couldn't
figure out how to not charge for trainee SEs. To address the
opportunity, they established several (virtual machine) CP67 HONE
(hands-on network environment) datacenters with remote access from
branch offices for SEs to practice their operating system skills (in guest
virtual machines). The science center had also ported APL\360
to CMS for CMS\APL. HONE then started also offering CMS\APL-based
sales&marketing support tools ... which come to dominate all HONE
activity (and the guest operating system use disappears). some past
HONE posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
some unbundling posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
At the same time the science center was offering its CP67 service to
other internal locations, as well to staff and students at Univ. in the
Boston/Cambridge area. One of the early internal CMS\APL users were the
Armonk business planners ... who loaded the most highest valued
corporate assets on the Cambridge system, detailed customer
information. This had to meet some stringent security requirements since
there were also non-employees and students using the same
system. Science center learned early that students would try all sorts
of things. some science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
also from that period, I didn't learn about these guys until later
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 15:42:09 -0700Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
in the recently posted refs that they violated client/server
recommendations resulting in exploits, some that continue to this day
... recent posts about a number of internet "safe payment" products
around the turn of the century ... and why it collapsed.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#78 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
posts about mid-90s presentation on justifications why (proprietary)
consumer dail-up banking moving to internet ... at the same time
commercial/cash-management dialup banking said they would *NEVER*
move to the internet because of long list of vulnerabilities ... some
number I had previously referenced (although subsequently, even
commercial dialup banking moves to internet)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#dialup-banking
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Date: 31 May 2015 Blog: Google+re:
PROFS was announced spring 1981. It was menu based system and had
borrowed a very early version of VMSG source for its email
client. Later, when the VMSG author offered them more up-to-date
version, PROFS people attempted to get him fired (having taken credit
for everything in PROFS). Everything quieted down when he demonstrated
that every PROFS message in the world carried his initials in
non-displayed field. After that he only distributed the source to two
people, me and one other person. some old VMSG email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmsg
this is PROFS discussion from 1981 in VMSHARE archives
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=PROFS&ft=MEMO
it references that IBM had previously been working with Amoco Research on some aspects of PROFS.
Note TYMSHARE started offering its CMS-based computer conferencing
system "free" to share as VMSHARE in Aug1976. I made arrangements with
TYMSHARE to get monthly tape dump of all VMSAHRE files for putting up
on internal network and internal systems (including HONE). One of the
biggest problems was IBM legal approval who were concerned IBM
employees would be contaminated by customer information. some old
email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Clone Controllers and Channel Extenders Date: 31 May 2015 Blog: FacebookAs undergraduate in the 60s, I added tty support to cp67 and attempted to make 2702 do something it couldn't quite do. Somewhat as result, UNIV. started effort to build clone controller ... reverse engineered 360 channel interface, built channel interface board for Interdata/3 programmed to emulate 2702. Later this was upgraded to Interdata/4 handling channel interface and multiple interdate/3s handling port/line-scanners. Four of us got written up for being responsible for (some part of) clone controller business. Later Perkin-Elmer bought Interdata and the boxes were sold under the PE logo. some past posts
1980s, STL was bursting at the seams and they were moving 300 people
from the IMS group to offsite bldg 5mi away (except mwave T1 traveled
15mi) ... with remote 3270 support back to STL (now silicon valley
lab). They had tried the remote 3270 and found the human factors
deplorable and I got con'ed into doing channel extender support for
them ... allowing 3270 channel attached controllers at remote
site. Support included downloading channel programs to the remote
channel emulator which went a long way towards obfuscating the
enormous channel protocol transmission latency ... and they couldn't
tell the difference between real channel attached 3270s and the
off-site channel attached 3270s (for various reasons, it actually
improved throughput). The vendor then tried to get IBM to release my
support ... but a group in POK had been playing with some serial fiber
stuff and they were afraid that if it was in the field, it would make
it harder for them to release their stuff. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
in 1988, I got asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they were playing with which quickly becomes fibre channel standard ... including downloading of I/O programs.
In 1990, a decade after I did channel extender, the POK stuff was
released as ESCON with the ES/9000 when it was already obsolete. Then
some of the POK channel people get involved with fibre channel
standard and define a heavy duty protocol layer that drastically cuts
the native FCS throughput ... which eventually ships as FICON. some
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
Note most recent I've seen is z196 peak i/o throughput benchmarks using 104 FICON to achieve 2M IOPS. About the same time there was a native FCS announced for e5-2600 blades claiming over 1M IOPS (two such FCS having higher throughput than 104 FICON ... protocol layer running over 104 FCS).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:46:33 -0700Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
I don't think he ever had to deal with lots of students on his systems. They seem to get peer points & bragging rights for finding & exploiting vulnerabilities. At science center in very early 70s, we had early case with MIT student figured out how to crash the system (didn't have any security breaches, just a denial of service) ... the person was told to not repeat it while that particular problem was fixed ... he repeated it again and was told he would loose his access if he repeated it ... he repeated it again ... and his access was revoked. He then went to his MIT academic adviser and complained that the science center revoked his access and demanded it be restored (as if it was his right to crash the system as much as he wanted).
past posts mentioning science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
past posts mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
Later in the 90s, we had a mini-conference at our house of profs from UC
graduate computer security programs. A major problem highlighted was the
students were all focused on finding and exploiting vulnerabilities
(because that was where they got peer points & bragging rights) ... and
extremely hard to motivate them to work on developing countermeasures
and fixes for exploits and vulnerabilities.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#26 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#62 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#36 Builders V. Breakers
There have been similar discussions about sociopaths and lack of sense
of right, wrong and consequences about people on wallstreet ... it is
all a game with them as preditors and everybody else prey.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#75 lack of information accuracy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#80 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#77 Madoff Whistleblower Book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#40 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#24 AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#30 Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#80 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#4 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
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/2012b.html#16 Interview of Mr. John Reed regarding banking fixing the game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#99 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#1 Spontaneous conduction: The music man with no written plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#91 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#84 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#53 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#14 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#76 Crowdsourcing Diplomacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#1 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#1 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#39 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#15 Banking Culture Encourages Dishonesty
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:58:30 -0700Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
the previous comment was that to take a well designed, written and tested application and turn it until a business critical service ... can take 4-10 times the original effort ... is usually about understanding what is really going on. Really understanding what is going on can usually result in very efficient implementation ... it is the lack of understanding that using results in brute force, inefficient implementations.
the corollary is that KISS (keep it simple stupid) is frequently much harder than any of the alternatives.
another corollary is that frequently complex (snake oil) security turns out to frequently obfuscation that it reall isn't &/or can't do what is claimed.
lots of past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm3.htm#kiss1 KISS for PKIX. (Was: RE: ASN.1 vs XML (used to be RE: I-D ACTION :draft-ietf-pkix-scvp-00.txt))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm3.htm#kiss2 Common misconceptions, was Re: KISS for PKIX. (Was: RE: ASN.1 vs XML (used to be RE: I-DACTION :draft-ietf-pkix-scvp-00.txt))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm3.htm#kiss3 KISS for PKIX. (Was: RE: ASN.1 vs XML (used to be RE: I-D ACTION :draft-ietf-pkix-scvp-00.txt))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm3.htm#kiss4 KISS for PKIX. (Was: RE: ASN.1 vs XML (used to be RE: I-D ACTION :draft-ietf-pkix-scvp-00.txt))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm3.htm#kiss5 Common misconceptions, was Re: KISS for PKIX. (Was: RE: ASN.1 vs XML (used to be RE: I-DACTION :draft-ietf-pkix-scvp- 00.txt))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm3.htm#kiss6 KISS for PKIX. (Was: RE: ASN.1 vs XML (used to be RE: I-D ACTION :draft-ietf-pkix-scvp-00.txt))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm3.htm#kiss7 KISS for PKIX. (Was: RE: ASN.1 vs XML (used to be RE: I-D ACTION :draft-ietf-pkix-scvp-00.txt))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm3.htm#kiss8 KISS for PKIX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm3.htm#kiss9 KISS for PKIX .... password/digital signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm3.htm#kiss10 KISS for PKIX. (authentication/authorization seperation)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm5.htm#liex509 Lie in X.BlaBla...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm7.htm#3dsecure 3D Secure Vulnerabilities?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm8.htm#softpki10 Software for PKI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsmail.htm#variations variations on your account-authority model (small clarification)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsmail.htm#comfort AADS & X9.59 performance and algorithm key sizes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay10.htm#76 Invisible Ink, E-signatures slow to broadly catch on (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay10.htm#77 Invisible Ink, E-signatures slow to broadly catch on (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#73 Account Numbers. Was: Confusing Authentication and Identiification? (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#gaping gaping holes in security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay7.htm#3dsecure4 3D Secure Vulnerabilities? Photo ID's and Payment Infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm10.htm#hackhome Hackers Targeting Home Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm10.htm#boyd AN AGILITY-BASED OODA MODEL FOR THE e-COMMERCE/e-BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm11.htm#10 Federated Identity Management: Sorting out the possibilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm11.htm#30 Proposal: A replacement for 3D Secure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm12.htm#19 TCPA not virtualizable during ownership change (Re: Overcoming the potential downside of TCPA)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm12.htm#54 TTPs & AADS Was: First Data Unit Says It's Untangling Authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm13.htm#16 A challenge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm13.htm#20 surrogate/agent addenda (long)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#23 Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#26 Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#27 Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#28 Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#29 Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#30 Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#31 Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#19 Simple SSL/TLS - Some Questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#20 Simple SSL/TLS - Some Questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#21 Simple SSL/TLS - Some Questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#39 FAQ: e-Signatures and Payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#40 FAQ: e-Signatures and Payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm16.htm#1 FAQ: e-Signatures and Payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm16.htm#10 Difference between TCPA-Hardware and a smart card (was: example:secure computing kernel needed)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm16.htm#12 Difference between TCPA-Hardware and a smart card (was: example: secure computing kernel needed)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm17.htm#0 Difference between TCPA-Hardware and a smart card (was: example: secure computing kernel needed)<
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm17.htm#41 Yahoo releases internet standard draft for using DNS as public key server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm17.htm#60 Using crypto against Phishing, Spoofing and Spamming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm19.htm#27 Citibank discloses private information to improve security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm2.htm#mcomfort Human Nature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#1 Is there any future for smartcards?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#11 Payment Tokens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#26 X.509 / PKI, PGP, and IBE Secure Email Technologies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm24.htm#15 Apple to help Microsoft with "security neutrality"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm24.htm#49 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm24.htm#51 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm24.htm#52 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#0 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#1 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#2 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#3 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#4 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#5 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#6 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#7 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#10 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#23 Identity resurges as a debate topic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#54 Security can only be message-based?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#64 How to crack RSA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#0 2007: year in review
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#11 Death of antivirus software imminent
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#228 Attacks on a PKI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#18 Disk caching and file systems. Disk history...people forget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#51 DARPA was: Short Watson Biography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#1 Why is UNIX semi-immune to viral infection?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#3 SUNW at $8 good buy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#22 Infiniband's impact was Re: Intel's 64-bit strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#44 PDP-10 Archive migration plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#59 Computer Naming Conventions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#15 Opinion on smartcard security requested
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#0 VAX, M68K complex instructions (was Re: Did Intel Bite Off MoreThan It Can Chew?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#1 OS Workloads : Interactive etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#26 Crazy idea: has it been done?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#29 Crazy idea: has it been done?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#62 subjective Q. - what's the most secure OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#11 Serious vulnerablity in several common SSL implementations?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#43 how to build tamper-proof unix server?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#44 how to build tamper-proof unix server?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#20 A new e-commerce security proposal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#27 Root certificate definition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#23 Cost of computing in 1958?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#60 MIDAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#45 hyperblock drift, was filesystem structure (long warning)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#46 internal network drift (was filesystem structure)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#66 FBA suggestion was Re: "average" DASD Blocksize
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#14 OT: Attaining Perfection
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#42 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#33 MAD Programming Language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#37 Cray to commercialize Red Storm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#26 Moribund TSO/E
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#26 The attack of the killer mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#30 The attack of the killer mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#58 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#60 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#24 |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#51 New Method for Authenticated Public Key Exchange without Digital Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#50 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#10 The Soul of Barb's New Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#12 The Soul of Barb's New Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#22 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#1 Brit banks introduce delays on interbank xfers due to phishing boom
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#19 Improving Authentication on the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#18 The Worth of Verisign's Brand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#43 Security of Secret Algorithm encruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#24 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#34 How To Abandon Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#40 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#8 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#38 PDP-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#46 Musings on a holiday weekend
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#22 sorting was: The System/360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#11 What part of z/OS is the OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#10 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#70 Securing financial transactions a high priority for 2007
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#29 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#30 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#5 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#7 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#25 Latest Principles of Operation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#26 Latest Principles of Operation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#12 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#13 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#11 Kernels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#52 Any benefit to programming a RISC processor by hand?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#47 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#97 Is virtualization diminishing the importance of OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#75 Outsourcing dilemma or debacle, you decide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#64 lack of information accuracy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#55 recent mentions of 40+ yr old technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#74 Top 10 vulnerabilities for service orientated architecture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#21 recent mentions of 40+ yr old technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#55 Can Smart Cards Reduce Payments Fraud and Identity Theft?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#65 Barbless
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#37 What if the computers went back to the '70s too?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#35 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#59 EU agency runs rule over ID cards for online banking logins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#16 Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#66 z9 / z10 instruction speed(s)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#75 Is Security a Curse for the Cloud Computing Industry?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#19 Virtualization: Making Seductive Promises a Reality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#82 CARD AUTHENTICATION TECHNOLOGY - Embedded keypad on Card - Is this the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#72 Orientation - does group input (or groups of data) make better decisions than one person can?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#2 No command, and control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#94 The Curly Factor -- Prologue
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#14 How is SSL hopelessly broken? Let us count the ways
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#25 Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#79 alignment, was History of byte addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#1 As Pressure Grows to Cut Spending, the True Cost of Weapons Is Anyone's Guess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#48 ISBNs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#53 ISBNs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#88 What separates Sun Tzu & John Boyd as Martial thinkers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#101 Perspectives: Looped back in
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#44 Faster, Better, Cheaper: Why Not Pick All Three?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#68 Memory versus processor speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#21 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#25 VM370 40yr anniv, CP67 44yr anniv
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#66 German infosec agency warns against Trusted Computing in Windows 8
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#23 Young's Black Hat 2013 talk - was mainframe tribute song
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Why do we keep losing? Date: 01 June 2015 Blog: Slightly East of NewWhy do we keep losing?
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#9 Why do we keep losing?
corporate representatives approach former eastern bloc countries and
tell them if they vote for invasion of iraq in the UN, they will get
approval to join NATO and directed appropriation USAID (that can only
be used for buying modern arms from US military-industrial complex).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
"Directed appropration USAID" is one way congress has of feeding the military-industrial complex w/o it showing up in DOD budget. An issue was that with the end of the cold war, there was downturn in military spending ... and the military-industrial complex needed a way to reverse that trend. 2010 there was CBO report that DOD budget had been increased a little over two trillion dollars (compared to baseline budget), $1+T for the two wars and $1+T that couldn't be accounted for. Note that in the 90s, congress passes act that requires all federal gencies pass regular financial audits. So far, DOD has been unable to pass a financial audit, there is some speculation that DOD might be able to pass a financial audit in 2017 (20yrs later).
Current projections that when all is said∓done, the cost of the two wars will reach $5T with long-term veterans medical and benefits. In fact, long-term veterans medical and benefits is looming as major threat to the military-industrial complex ... cutting into the funds available to them.
past posts mentioning "Prophets of War"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#54 NBC's website hacked with malware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#50 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#51 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#5 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#78 Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#59 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#80 The REAL Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#31 An insider's story of the global attack on climate science
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#54 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#20 US No Longer Tech Leader in Military War Gear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#104 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#178 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#74 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: June 1985 email Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 11:22:59 -0700Note that PC/XT standard harddisk had 100ms access time (aka about 10 IOs/sec). VM370 was modified to do I/O by messages with CP88 running on the PC-side.
aka "PAM" was the paged-mapped filesystem I originally wrote for
CP67/CMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
recent posts mentioning A74
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#8 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#35 Remember 3277?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#71 30 yr old email
some more esoteric internals of CMS, shared segments, and file
directories in r/o shared memory:
Date: 06/21/85 12:32:41
From: wheeler
re: dchnfr problem;
Must have been a slip-up in communication. Endicott found a problem
the early part of May in DMSLAD ... that was fixed with a new update
J0002DCH dated 5/17/85. I then "fixed/changed" DMSALU J0001DCH on
5/18/85. Between those two updates, the problem with freeing DCH
blocks should be "fixed".
re: DCHNFR operation;
DMSINS has been changed to not "set" the DCHSHR flag when filling in
the ASSTATX (shared stat for the s-disk) and AYSTATX (shared stat for
the y-disk) ... but to instead set the DCHNFR. Prior to the DCH split
code, both the DCH header and the actual DCH block were located in
shared storage.
The DCHSHR flag was used both to indicate a) the block was not in free
storage and b) it was possible to modify any of the fields in the
DCHSECT block proper. With the DCH-split code, only the file-directory
proper is in shared storage ... and the DCHSECT is non-shared, free
storage.
I took the "easy" way out by not finding all the code that checks
DCHSHR and changing the logic ... instead, I defined a new bit and
just changed the code that sets the bit (DMSINS) and the code that
releases the storage (DMSLAD, DMSALU).
--------------------
Note: this code change should have no impact execpt for things like
HIDE which directly modify data in the file directory proper ... and
"who" presumably depend on the DCHSHR flag to indicate whether it is
possible. Programs like HIDE will have to be changed/modified in any
case since they won't work w/o a fix to handle the splitting of the
DCHSECT.
---------------------
There will have to also be modifications made to any DCSS support code
which dynamically loads DCSS segments which contain file directories
(they also have to modified, in any case, because of the basic DCHSECT
split code).
... snip ... top of post, old email index
other old reference to DCHSECT split (a year earlier):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email840618
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#19 A brief history of CMS/XA, part 1
above also references that somebody had written a proposal to include
shared segments and PAM (CMS paged-mapped filesystem) for certain
3-letter gov. agency. PAM and shared segment work was original done
on CP67 then migrated to VM370 ... references migration of lots
changes from CP67 to VM370 (most eventually released to customers
except for the paged-mapped filesystem changes).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
posts mentioning 3880-11/Ironwood cache (also dup/no-dup)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#13 4341 was "Is a VAX a mainframe?"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#18 Disk caching and file systems. Disk history...people forget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#68 I/O contention
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#53 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#54 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#63 MVS History (all parts)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#55 Storage Virtualization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#3 PLX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#52 ''Detrimental'' Disk Allocation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#7 Disk drives as commodities. Was Re: Yamhill
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#5 Alpha performance, why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#13 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#17 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#18 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#20 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#29 FW: Looking for Disk Calc program/Exec
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#28 IBM's mini computers--lack thereof
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#30 Massive i/o
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#50 non ECC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#8 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#46 Hercules 3.04 announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#45 using 3390 mod-9s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#41 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#11 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#14 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#32 Why magnetic drums was/are worse than disks ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#31 MB to Cyl Conversion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#35 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#0 old discussion of disk controller chache
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#12 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#23 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#38 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#42 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#60 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#15 Flash memory arrays
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#52 Throwaway cores
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#41 American Airlines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#39 The Internet's 100 Oldest Dot-Com Domains
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#11 Secret Service plans IT reboot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#47 locate mode, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#11 Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#55 Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#20 How to analyze a volume's access by dataset
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#14 Mainframe Slang terms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#67 Speed of Old Hard Disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#68 Speed of Old Hard Disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#79 I'd forgotten what a 2305 looked like
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#34 nested LRU schemes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#47 nested LRU schemes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#75 megabytes per second
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#3 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#96 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 12:19:53 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
note this didn't happen over an extended period of time ... the crashes (more than three), talking to the student, the warnings, revoking access and the fix ... occurred over the period of a single day. The person appeared to believe in their own privilege with no consequences.
past posts mentioning science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 10:08:30 -0700hancock4 writes:
this is in parallel with shutting down ACS-360 because management
thought that it would advance state of the art too fast and they would
loose control of the market.
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
then the Future System period ... that would be totally different from
360/370 ... and internal politics during the FS was shutting down 370
efforts ... and the lack of 370 products in the period then is credited
with giving clone processors market foothold ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
then with the "death" of FS ,from Ferguson/Morris Computer Wars (effect
of Future System failure):
... 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
... and:
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 ...
in the late 70s and early 80s, I was blamed for online computer
conferencing on the internal network ... folklore is that when the
executive committee was told about online computer conferencing (and the
internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. From ibmjargon:
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 ...
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
In the early 80s, IBM made an effort to reclaim some part of the academic market ... needing the new generation to have some ibm orientation. ACIS was created with mission to give out hundreds of millions of dollars to educational institutions (there was some jokes about it being staffed with people from other organizations that weren't critical/needed). MIT Project Athena got $25M (matched by $25M from DEC), CMU got $50M, ... in all several hundred million was distributed. However, IBM had a hard time turning all that money into business. Project Athena had X-windows, Kerberos, and other distributed computing activity. CMU funding was major factor in MACH, Andrew filesystem, Camelot, etc
Also, BITNET got lots of funding (along with EARN in europe) some bitnet
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
I also sponsored John Boyd's briefings during this period ... one of his
points that former military officers were starting to contaiminate US
corporate culture with their rigid top-down command and control
background (and only those at the very top knew what they were doing)
... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
however, this was also in the period that articles were starting to appear that the rise of MBAs was starting to destory American business with myopic focus on quarterly numbers.
There was also large corporations ordering hundreds of 4300s at a time
for placing out in departmental areas ... the leading edge of the
coming distributed computing tsunami. For small unit orders, IBM and
DEC sold similar numbers into the mid-range market (big difference was
large corporate multi-hundred unit orders). This is old post with
decade of DEC VAX numbers sliced&diced by model, year, US/non-US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0 Computers in Science Fiction
it shows the big explosion in mid-range market starting to move to workstations and large PCs by the mid-80s.
The communication group saw a big corporate uptake of IBM/PCs as emulated dumb terminal 3270s. VAX & 4300s were starting to loose to workstations and PCs ... but also client/server and distributed computing was starting to take-over. In the mid-80s, the communication group was fighting off client/server and distributed computing, trying to preserve its (emulated) dumb terminal install base.
In the late 80s, a senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at the
internal, world-wide, annual communication group conference supposedly
on 3174 performance ... however he opened his talk with statement that
the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of
the disk division. The issue was that the communication group had
stangle hold on datacenters with corporate strategic responsibility
for everything that crossed datacenter walls. The disk division was
seeing the communication efforts to fight off client/server and
distributed computing resulting in data fleeing the datacenters to
more distributed computing friendly platforms (and drop in disk
sales).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
a couple years later the corporation goes into the red and was being reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 10:37:43 -0700re:
in the mid-80s, top ibm executives appeared oblivious to disruptive changes in progress, they were predicting revenue would double from $60B to $120B primarily based on mainframe business ... and there was massive internal bldg program to double mainframe manufacturing capacity (in parallel with the communication group stranglehold on datacenters). At the same time, there was big influx in fast-track MBAs quickly cycling through various victim business units (apparently in preparation for company doubling).
for other drift ... recent Boyd item, "John Boyd's Revenge"
https://medium.com/the-bridge/john-boyd-s-revenge-8a57d9a53364
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:20:27 -0700hancock4 writes:
Don't know ... never met them.
I do know that with demise of FS and the mad rush to get things back into 370 product pipelines ... they threw all the adtech groups (bridge the gap between regular development and research) into the breach ... and adtech nearly disappears. Development is usually considered 1-3yrs out, adtech 3-6yrs ... so they sacrificed the future ... pulling back from education market and near demise of adtech ... coupled with MBA myopic focus on qrtrly numbers.
past reference about doing adtech conf. spring 1982 ... possibly 1st since
demise of FS.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#4a John Hartmann's Birthday Party
other reference to adtech conf.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#40 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#51 Hey! Keep Your Hands Out Of My Abstraction Layer!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#62 When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#23 zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#34 Who was the Greatest IBM President and CEO of the last century?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#62 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#9 segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#4 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#1 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#6 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#21 The PDP-8/e and thread drifT?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#74 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#39 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#71 Bell Picturephone--early business application experiments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#65 Decimation of the valuation of IBM
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:46:44 -0700Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
recent post mentioning "deferred prosecution"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#80 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
a couple refs
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2012/12/banks-are-where-money-drug-war
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/11/if-hsbc-were-a-person-it-d-be-in-jail.html
http://www.thenation.com/blog/181763/blotch-eric-holders-record-wall-street-accountability
Why Didn't Eric Holder Go After the Bankers?
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/didnt-eric-holder-go-bankers
Matt Taibbi and "The $9 Billion Witness" Who Exposed How JPMorgan Chase
Helped Wreck the Economy
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/1/matt_taibbi_and_the_9_billion
current head of SEC had to get ethics waiver
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2015/01/20150114-sec-chair-got-waiver-to-oversee-wall-street-law-firm.html
including most recent UBS settlement ... there was earlier speculation
that they might actually prosecute under prior "deferred prosecution"
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/justice-department-to-tear-up-past-ubs-settlement-2015-05-15
but so far seems like hot air
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-20/ubs-to-plead-guilty-on-libor-fined-by-fed-in-currency-probe
goes along with "captured" regulatory agencies and revolving doors between wallstreet and gov. agencies.
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
a whistleblower example was the head of FDIC large bank examination caught WaMu early on and reported it up through the head of FDIC ... got demoted and then let go ... his whistleblower case is still going on.
whistleblower
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 00:01:22 -0700Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
at the time of deploying the payment gateway ... it was still common for the infrastructure to partition, major ISPs were still taking point-of-presence routers down during the day on sundays for service, there wasn't a whole lot of co-location at telco exchanges (that had hardened blgs, 48v power, diesel backup, telco provisioning, etc)
Major retailers could get redundant circuits from telco having diverse routing, to payment network that had constant/active monitoring (even if retailer wasn't doing transactions, constant/active monitoring would still recognize some outage), service level agreements (with significant penalties if didn't meet service), first level problem determination at 5mins or less at trouble desk.
I had to cobble together a whole lot of stuff to even come close to approx. that with internet resources ... requiring multiple different circuits into different significant portions of the backbone as part of compensating procecedures.
As I've periodically mentioned it took a year to finally get multiple-A record support into the browser ... but I could mandate it in the webserver to gateway operation. At the time the e-commerce started ... they would still allow advertising routes ... but during that period the infrastructure transitioned to hierarchical routing ... even with carefully configured multiple connections into different parts of the backbone ... browsers wouldn't try the alternate routes if they didn't have multiple A-record support.
Lots of things have improved in the 20+ year interval.
I've periodically mentioned that one of the major early adopter ecommerce sites was major sporting facility that advertised on sunday NFL football and was expecting significant business during half-time ... but that was in the period when major ISPs still took down major/critical routers for maintenance ... easily making the website unavailable.
a few recent past posts mentioning the multiple A-record issue:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#70 Obama Administration Launches Plan To Make An "Internet ID" A Reality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#94 Privacy vs. freedom of the press--Google court ruling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#19 350 DBAs stare blankly when reminded super-users can pinch data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#96 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#171 European data law: UK.gov TRASHES 'unambiguous consent' plans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#55 HealthCare.gov in Cahoots with Dozens of Tracking Websites
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#23 Commentary--time to build a more secure Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#45 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 09:28:49 -0700Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
It was 6Nov1997 when postel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
had me give presentation at ISI (why internet wasn't commercial grade
dataprocessing)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#10 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
other refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#65 IBM100 - Rise of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#66 IBM100 - Rise of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#70 How the Internet wasn't Commercial Dataprocessing
1995 ... was early major ecommerce webserver & expecting lots of hits during NFL sunday halftime ... and things like major ISPs routinely taking down their routers during the day on sunday for mainteannce.
Also, summer of 95, largest online service provider started seeing its
internet facing servers crashing. Over the next month most of the
industry specialists come in to look at it. A month after it started,
one of their people flew out to the west coast and bought me a hamburger
after work and described the problem while I ate the hamburger. I said,
that was one of the threats we had identified during the HA/CMP
analysis (sort of a crack between what the RFC standard said and what
the code was actually doing). I gave him a Q&D patch which was applied
later that evening. I went around to several of the major internet
system & equipment providers about addressing the problem ... nobody was
interested. Exactly a year later an ISP in NY had similar problem that
became public. At that point, lots of system/equipment providers jump in
to fix it and exclaim how fast they had addressed the problem. some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#51 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#11 Caller ID "spoofing"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#6 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#21 recent mentions of 40+ yr old technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#35 Builders V. Breakers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#11 Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats for 2009, will they cause creation of highly-secure Corporate-wide Intranets?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#2 First Website Launched 20 Years Ago Today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#84 'smttter IBMdroids
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#60 Core characteristics of resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#13 Do we really need 64-bit addresses or is 48-bit enough?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#104 On a lighter note, even the Holograms are demonstrating
It was also in 1995 period that HTTP webserver load was starting to
first scale-up and ran into the FINWAIT problem. HTTP had chosen to use
TCP for UDP atomic transactions. Result was enormous numbers of very
short sessions and enomrous number of session closes. The TCP FINWAIT
processing had never been implemented to handle long FINWAT lists (TCP
processing looking for dangling packets coming in after session close)
... linear running long FINWAIT lists was starting to consume 90+% of
webserver cpu. some recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#13 Is it time for a revolution to replace TLS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#26 There Is Still Hope
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#76 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#2 Knowledge Center Outage May 3rd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#50 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:10:35 -0700weird stuff ... haven't been able to update personal garlic.com webpages since 17apr. I had referenced the URL for google archive of this usenet thread in facebook yesterday. the 1st ten posts in this thread now show up at google newsgroup archive ... but four so far from today appear to show up as "deleted". all the other recent a.f.c. postings appear to show up at google.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Coase's Blockchain - the first half block - Vinay Gupta explains triple entry Date: 05 June 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Coase's Blockchain - the first half block - Vinay Gupta explains
triple entry
https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001564.html
RDBMS/SQL trivia ... not just fragile ... but rigid & fragile, working
with large energy utility in the early 90s, found they had over 6000
RDBMS/SQL with something like 90% common information. Issue was that
certain optimizations for financial transaction processing resulted in
RDBMS/SQL being very business process/task specific. Different
departments/business processes found it significantly easier to
replicate and adapt for their own purposes rather than trying to
extend single RDBMS/SQL to handle multiple different tasks. past posts
mentioning original relational/SQL implementation, System/R
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
mentioning 6000 RDBMS in large energy utility
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm2.htm#arch5 A different architecture? (was Re: certificate path
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#91 A note on the culture of database
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#27 Generalised approach to storing address details
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#0 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#2 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#77 Bloat
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:15:20 -0700Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
publicity with the rise of the internet was about outsiders and outsider countermeasures ... but insiders would promote that as obfuscation as true source. stats still have insiders involved in the majority of things like identity theft.
it is common for representatives of gov. agencies to attend financial standards meetings ... in the late 90s there was period where advances in electronics resulted in replacing mainframes with much smaller sized computing so that formally gigantic football field sized datacenters had lots of empty space. I once jokingly ask one of the gov. representations if I could get co-location for some very high security financial in empty space in one of their datacenters. Their reply was while their people have been trained for security of the nation ... very little was done about addressing financial temptation.
In various technology meetings ... military focus has been about continuing to operate in circumstances involving very high physical damage.
In recent facebook thread about gov. antitrust against ibm ... it was
raised that Katzenbach joined IBM in 1969
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Katzenbach#Later_years
earlier he was involved in the JFK investigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Katzenbach#Role_in_JFK_assassination_investigation
in the 70s, IBM got a new CSO ... formally in gov. serivce (heavily
physical securitiy oriented, including at one time head of presidential
detail, but he wasn't in dallas) ... not uncommon practice at large
corporations. Relatively new hire, I was still asked to run around with
him for awhile and talk about computer security (and little physical
security rubbed off). previous posts mentioning presidential detail:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#24 Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats for 2009, will they cause creation of highly-secure Corporate-wide Intranets?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#39 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#41 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#33 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#3a The Great Cyberheist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#8 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#53 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#60 Bridgestone Sues IBM For $600 Million Over Allegedly 'Defective' System That Plunged The Company Into 'Chaos'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#54 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
The overall gov. record regarding electronic security has been very
spotty. previous posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#10 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#11 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#12 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#13 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#15 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#16 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#19 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#24 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#25 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#26 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 ^A^K boy scouts Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 17:54:29 -0700Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
Eisenhower's warming about military-industrial complex was largely about money ... and for-profit companies ... since then severely aggravated by MBAs' myopic focus on constantly increasing quarterly profits.
the fall of the iron curtain was big blow to them.
corporate representatives apporach former eastern bloc countries and
tell them if they vote for invasion of iraq in the UN, they will get
approval to join NATO and directed appropriation USAID (that can only be
used for buying modern arms from US military-industrial complex).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
"Directed appropration USAID" is one way congress has of feeding the military-industrial complex w/o it showing up in DOD budget. An issue was that with the end of the cold war, there was downturn in military spending ... and the military-industrial complex needed a way to reverse that trend. 2010 there was CBO report that DOD budget had been increased a little over two trillion dollars (compared to baseline budget), $1+T for the two wars and $1+T that couldn't be accounted for. Note that in the 90s, congress passes act that requires all federal gencies pass regular financial audits. So far, DOD has been unable to pass a financial audit, there is some speculation that DOD might be able to pass a financial audit in 2017 (20yrs later).
one of the issues is that projections that those war costs will
ultimately hit $5T with long term veterens' benefits and medical. In
fact that is becomming threat to military-industrial complex impacting
funds available for their bottom line. As been mentioned periodically,
objective is "perpetual war" and "keeping the money flowing" ... which
goes along with the Success of Failure theme. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
and then when CIA director didn't agree with "Team B" analysis
justifying significant increases in DOD funding ... they replaced him
with somebody that would:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
team b posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
they are then there for providing WMDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
in the iran/iraq war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
were there with Bush1 (earlier replacement CIA director) for
Iraq1. Sat. photo recon analyst warns that Iraq is marshaling forces
for Kuwait invasion; administration says that Saddam told them he
would do no such thing ... administration proceeds to discredit the
analyst. Analyst then warns that Iraq is marshaling forces for Saudi
invasion ... now the administration is forced to choose between Iraq
and Saudi.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
and still there with Bush2 for Iraq2 fabricate WMD justification.
cousin of the white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing with the
Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had been
decommissioned, notifies her cousin, Powell and others; then gets
locked up in military hospital
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
from the law of unintended consequences, for Iraq2, they were told to
bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs ... when they get around to going
back, more than a million metric tons have evaporated. They then start
seeing large artillery shell IEDs, even taking out Abram M1s
https://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-ebook/dp/B004IATD6U/
they eventually find the decommissioned WMDs tracing back to US in the
80s ... that information is initially classified
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
one of Boyd' acolytes wrote this tribute ... but included
reference to the end of "cold war" benefit never managed
to appear
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
and his "perpetual war" theme:
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
posts & web references mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2015 23:14:54 -0700Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
it was security breach in the sense of break down of security processes ... but not in the sense of loss of information (which was issue with the armonk customer data on the machine). It was also an "insider" attack ... and insider was easily identified and trivial to revoke authorization.
we were tangentially involved in the cal. data breach
notification act .... having been brought in to help word smith the
cal. electronic signature act. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
many of the participants were heavily involved in privacy issues and
had done detail consumer and public surveys ... and the #1 issue was
identity theft in the form of fraudulent transactions as result
of data breach. Little or nothing seemed to being done about it
... and it was hoped that publicity from the breach notification would
prompt corrective action. Part of the issue is that nominally entities
take security measures in self-defense ... however it wasn't the
istitutions that were at risk, it was their customers and the
public. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
since the cal. state data breach act, several other states have passed similar acts. Also there have been several federal data breach notification bills introduced (none have yet passed) ... about evenly dividied between those similar to the original cal. act and ones that would effective eliminate notification (via various ingenious ways of specifying when notification was required ... and federal preemption of the state acts).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 09:19:49 -0700floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) writes:
from long ago and far away:
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1987 12:19:23 PST
From: wheeler
re: fdx performance; I thot I remember seeing some performance numbers
in RSCS forum comparing FDX/BSC with Y-connector and RSCS/SNA driving a
56kbit link (both terrestrial and satellite) ... but no longer can find
it.
Does somebody have those numbers? Also as a matter of interest, does
anybody know what the current "window size" that 3725/NCP supports on
SDLC link (i.e. size of block and number of blocks out)?
... snip ... top of post, old email index
We had FDX/BSC driver using rate pacing rather than window algorithms to
have sustained full media flow in both directions ... reference here in
posts about "high speed data transport" project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
This also shows up in discussions about IBM controllers not supporting
more than 56kbits ... recent refs to the "fat pipe" story and why
customers didn't want T1 until sometime into the 90s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#40 Remember 3277?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#47 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#2 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
and in their eventual "rube-goldberg" 3737 that got around VTAM host
limitations supporting terrestial T1 pipe by spoofing local CTCA
connection including early ACKs as soon as local box receives RU
(enormous amount of buffering in the box with lots of 68K processors)
Old email discussing 3737:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email880130
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email880606
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email881005
with all the spoofing processing, 3737 max. sustained only 2mbit/sec aggregate (US T1 3mbit/sec aggregate full-duplex, EU T1 4mbit/sec aggregate full-duplex).
recent posts with 3737 ref:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#47 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#2 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
At the same time they were spinning the "fat pipe" story for the
executive committee and why customers didn't want T1 1.5mbyte/sec
full-duplex pipes (because 37x5 didn't support more than 56kbit/sec)
... they were also spreading mis-information about how SNA/VTAM could
be used for NSF T1 infrastructure. old email about SNA/VTAM NSF
mis-information:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
other email about SNA/VTAM misinformation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM Vector Support Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 09:34:07 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
old posts mentioning 3090 vector
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#5 TF-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#61 TF-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#32 What goes into a 3090?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#1 cost of crossing kernel/user boundary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#20 360 Microde Floating Point Fix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#10 RISCs too close to hardware?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#22 Would multi-core replace SMPs?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#4 The Power of the NORC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#51 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#71 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#68 IBM Mainframe (1980's) on You tube
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#72 Vector processors on the 3090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#73 Vector processors on the 3090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#74 Vector processors on the 3090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#1 Vector processors on the 3090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#10 Vector processors on the 3090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#33 390 vector instruction set reuse, was 8-bit bytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#41 A History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#44 What Makes code storage management so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#50 The Subroutine Call
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#99 SHARE Blog: News Flash: The Mainframe (Still) Isn't Dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#63 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#35 curly brace languages source code style quides
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#111 IBM 360/85 vs. 370/165
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#56 New Principles of Operation (and Vector Facility for z/Architecture)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Will Clarence Thomas Recuse Himself Fom Obamacare Case? Date: 07 June, 2015 Blog: FacebookWill Clarence Thomas Recuse Himself Fom Obamacare Case?
GLBA (repeal of Glass-Steagall was added creating too big to fail, too big to prosecute, and too big to jail) initially passed along party lines and folklore is that president was going to veto it. They then went back and it eventually passes senate with veto-proof 90-8 and the president signs it. Comment was that wallstreet had spent $250M buying congress, approx. evenly divided between the two parties.
Jan2009 I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora hearings (30s congressional investigation into the crash of '29 that resulted in criminal convictions, jail time and Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal xrefs and URLs between what happened this time and what happened then (comments that there was some expectation that the new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call saying it won't be needed after all (comments about enormous piles of wallstreet money totally burying washington, also there may be only 2-3 members of congress that haven't been bought). Local washington news now will periodically refer to congress as "Kabuki Theater" ... that what is seen publicly has nothing to do with what really goes on (including apparent conflict between the two parties is misdirection for the public).
glass-steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Kabuki Theater
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 43rd President Date: 07 June, 2015 Blog: Facebookwhen CIA director didn't agree with "Team B" analysis (justifying significant increases in DOD funding) ... they replaced him with somebody that would:
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
those advisers/analysts are there for Iraq1. Sat. photo recon analyst
warns that Iraq is marshaling forces for Kuwait invasion;
administration says that Saddam told them he would do no such thing
... administration proceeds to discredit the analyst. Analyst then
warns that Iraq is marshaling forces for Saudi invasion ... now the
administration is forced to choose between Iraq and Saudi.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
and still there with Bush2 for Iraq2 fabricate WMD justification.
cousin of the white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing with the
Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had been
decommissioned, notifies her cousin, Powell and others; then gets
locked up in military hospital
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
from the law of unintended consequences, for Iraq2, they were told to
bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs ... when they get around to going
back, more than a million metric tons have evaporated. They then start
seeing large artillery shell IEDs, even taking out Abram M1s
https://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-ebook/dp/B004IATD6U/
they eventually find the decommissioned WMDs tracing back to US in the
80s ... takes nearly a decade beofre th information is declassified
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
note corporate representatives had approached former eastern bloc
countries and tell them if they vote in UN for invasion of iraq, they
will get approval to join NATO and directed appropriation USAID (that
can only be used for buying modern arms from US military-industrial
complex).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
"team b" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
In 2002, congress had let the fiscal responsibility act expire (required spending not exceed tax revenue). 2010 CBO report that in the interval, tax revenue was cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T budget gap (compared to baseline fiscal responsibility budget) ... tax cuts continue to this day.
fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
Last decade, economic mess was 70 times larger than S&L crisis. Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages ... but had limited market. In the late 90s we were asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents as a countermeasure.
In the early part of the century, the sellers found that they could
pay the rating agencies for triple-A (when both the sellers and the
rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008
congressional testimony). Triple-A trumps documents and they could now
do no-down, no-documentation lair loans, pay for triple-A and sell to
customers ... including large institutional funds restricted to
dealing in "safe" investments (like large pension funds, claims caused
30% or more loss in pension funds contributing to trillions in pension
shortfall). As a result over $27T was done between 2001 & 2008
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
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
From the law of unintended consequences ... the lack of documentation leads to the TBTF having to setup the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the (missing) documents.
If that wasn't enough, they also started doing securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their customers and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail ... creating enormous demand for dodgy loans.
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, and too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
from Merchants of Doubt,
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Erik-M-Conway-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
pg47/loc1209-14:
Team B's Claims turned out to be more than a little exaggerated. Later
analyses would show that the Soviet Union had not achieved strategic
superiority, they had not implemented a missile defense system beyond
their single Moscow installation, and they certainly never achieved
the ability to dictate U.S. policy. One anecdote perhaps tells the
whole story: A few years after the Soviet Union collapsed, one of
Teller's proteges toured a site that the Team B panel had believed was
a Soviet beam-weapon test facility; it turned out to be a rocket
engine test facility. It had nothing at all to do with beam weapons.
... snip ...
and National Insecurity
https://www.amazon.com/National-Insecurity-American-Militarism-Media-ebook/dp/B00ATLNI04/
pg248/3534-40:
The Team B experience was the first instance of institutionalized
militarization of intelligence imposed on the CIA from the White
House. The first instance of the CIA's internal militarization of
intelligence took place in the 1980s, when President Reagan appointed
a right-wing ideologue, Bill Casey, to be CIA director, and Casey
appointed a right-wing ideologue, Bob Gates, to be his deputy. Casey
and Gates combined to "cook the books" on a variety of issues,
including the Soviet Union, Central America, and Southwest Asia,
tailoring intelligence estimates to support the military policies of
the Reagan administration. After he left the CIA in 1993, Gates
admitted that he had become accustomed to Casey "fixing" intelligence
to support policy on many issues. He did not describe his own role in
support of Casey.
pg261/loc3722-24:
Cheney and Rumsfeld resorted to the same technique
they had used in 1976, when they had worked for President Ford. In the
1970s, they had created Team B at the CIA in order to politicize
intelligence on Soviet military power. In 2002, they politicized
intelligence in order to take the country to war against Iraq.
... snip ...
Prophets of War
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-Complex-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
pg134/loc2273-74:
Another Team B member who was to make his mark later, under the
administration of George W. Bush, was Paul Wolfowitz.
Rumsfield white house chief of staff 74-75 (and supposedly organized
replacement of CIA director), then when he becomes SECDEF, 75-77, he
is replaced by one of his staffers, Dick Cheney. He is again SECDEF
2001-2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld
When Rumsfeld was white house chief of staff 74-75, Cheney was on his
staff. Cheney then becomes white house chief of staff when Rumsfeld
becomes SECDEF. Cheney is then SECDEF from 89-93 and VP 2001-2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney
another "Team B"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
He is a leading neoconservative.[4] As Deputy Secretary of Defense, he
was "a major architect of President Bush's Iraq policy and ... its
most hawkish advocate."[5] In fact, "the Bush Doctrine was largely
[his] handiwork."
... snip ...
Other accounts have Iraq invasion planning starting before 9/11
going back to support for Iraq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war#Support
President Ronald Reagan initiated a strategic opening to Iraq, signing
National Security Study Directive (NSSD) 4-82 and selecting Donald
Rumsfeld as his emissary to Hussein, whom he visited in December 1983
and March 1984.[13] According to U.S. ambassador Peter W. Galbraith,
far from winning the conflict, "the Reagan administration was afraid
Iraq might actually lose."[14]
... snip ...
vampire squid
https://www.amazon.com/Griftopia-Machines-Vampire-Breaking-America-ebook/dp/B003F3FJS2/
has chapter on huge spike in oil price summer of 2008. CFTC had rule that players had to have significant position in order to play because speculators resulted in wild, irrational price moves (speculators make money on volatility price changes, pump&dump on the way up and short on the way down). Then 19 "secret letters" are sent out allowing selected speculators to play ... which resulted in the huge oil spike 2008 (one of the largest players was formally headed by the then secretary of treasury).
Then 2011, a senator releases transaction detail showing speculators responsible for the huge oil spike 2008. Then lots of stuff in the press how the senator violated the privacy of the corporations showing that they were responsible for huge 2008 oil spike. This topic shows up in some of the recent trade treaty negotiations with clauses that would prevent divulging such information.
griftopia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 13:22:36 -0700hancock4 writes:
safety engeneering has resulted in guardrails, crash zones, safety glass, safety belts, air bags, collapsable steering wheels, bumpers, padded dashboards, reengineered roads, etc. As each near series of safety engineering was introduced ... there were frequent arguments against it.
i've periodically commented on the most widely used platform started out as purely stand alone machine with no interconnect. A large number of applications, entertainment, games, etc ... grew up that took over the resources of the whole machine ... working directly with low level hardware. Then it expanded to closed, private, small business network/LANs ... where automatic code execution of stuff embedded in datafiles became common practice.
I periodically mention 1996 MSDC at mascone ... where all the banners said "internet" ... but the voiced theme in every session was constantly "preserve your investment" ... the paraigm of embedded code in datafiles automatically executed as well as games & other applications being able to take over the whole machine was preserved. Basically extended tqhe existing network support for small, private, closed, safe networks to the wild anarchy of the internet w/o any additional safety measures ... maybe like plucking somebody out of their shower and dropping them into the middle of WW1 battlefield (or some other extremely hostile environment).
Part of that resulted in the rise of lots of after-market products (virus scanners, etc) ... in the auto/highway environment ... aftermarket safety items are not considered sufficient solutions. Crash zones, bumpers, safety glass, air bags, seat belts had to be part of basic design ... not patched on afterwards.
Before he disappeared,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_%28computer_scientist%29
Jim Gray con'ed me into interviewing for Chief Security Architect in
Redmond ... the interview went on for a few weeks ... but we were unable
to come to an agreement. past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#7 Hypervisors May Replace Operating Systems As King Of The Data Center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#5 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#37 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#80 Making tea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#60 The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#18 Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats for 2009, will they cause creation of highly-secure Corporate-wide Intranets?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#28 Computer virus strikes US Marshals, FBI affected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#22 My Vintage Dream PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#20 Cyber attackers empty business accounts in minutes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#15 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#40 The Great Cyberheist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#56 Microsoft Wants 'Sick' PCs Banned From The Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#21 Closure in Disappearance of Computer Scientist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#74 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#93 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#14 The growing openness of an organization's infrastructure has greatly impacted security landscape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#24 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#77 Insane Insider Threat Program in Context of Morally and Mentally Bankrupt US Intelligence System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#44 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#72 *uix web security
past posts mentioning 96 MSDC at Moscone:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#49 Virus propagation risks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#45 Computer programming was all about:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#22 Why did TCP become popular ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#34 Next generation processor architecture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#32 Frontiernet insists on being my firewall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#51 Specifying all biz rules in relational data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#50 DOS C prompt in "Vista"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#18 Oddly good news week: Google announces a Caps library for Javascript
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#87 CompUSA to Close after Jan. 1st 2008
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#26 realtors (and GM, too!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#43 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
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#49 Abhor, Retch, Ignite?
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#18 John R. Opel, RIP
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?
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/2012j.html#93 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#97 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#45 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#68 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#10 It's all K&R's fault
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#11 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#23 weird trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#87 On a lighter note, even the Holograms are demonstrating
past posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#10 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#11 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#12 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#13 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#15 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#16 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#19 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#24 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#25 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#26 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#28 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#30 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 09:29:23 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
Jan2009 I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora hearings (30s congressional investigation into the crash of '29 that resulted in criminal convictions, jail time and Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal xrefs and URLs between what happened this time and what happened then (comments that there was some expectation that the new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call saying it won't be needed after all (comments about enormous piles of wallstreet money totally burying washington, also there may be only 2-3 members of congress that haven't been bought). Local washington news now will periodically refer to congress as "Kabuki Theater" ... that what is seen publicly has nothing to do with what really goes on (including apparent conflict between the two parties is misdirection for the public).
"glass steagall"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Kabuki Theater
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 13:52:41 -0700Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
I don't think that congress directly wants to destroy anything ... they are being paid by special interests to do things ... special interests wants the post-office business, wallstreet wants all the big retirement funds (social security, private pension funds ... its like the bank robber asked why he robs banks ... and the reply is that is where the money is).
They were able to make big dent in private pension funds that were
restricted to only doing *SAFE* investments ... by paying for triple-A
ratings on toxic CDOs (some claims that the large private pension funds
have taken 30% hit from this). toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
Even tho the SS trust fund has been looted for $2.7T ... there is
still a large amount that flows in & out each month that they
could skim. recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#4 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#7 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#40 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#41 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#62 Medicare Part B premiums increasing up to 30%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#66 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#68 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#75 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#82 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
Claims are that wallstreet can charge much higher fees on 401k
individual accounts than they were able to with the negotiated fees
with the large managed pension funds. It is also much easier to churn
accounts (illegal behavior doing transactions purely to increase
fees). Big corporations were cooperating because the move to 401k was
part of significantly reducing their retirement expense. Reference
here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
other recent posts mentioning Retirement Heist:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#81 Ginni gets bonus, plus raise, and extra incentives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#51 bloomberg article on ASG and Chpater 11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#54 National Security and Double Government
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#58 Neocons Guided Petraeus on Afghan War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#15 Retirement Heist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#32 PEU Report: Obama's Intelligence Oversight Board a Corporate Lot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#41 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#63 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#79 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 14:53:44 -0700hancock4 writes:
all what local DC press periodically refers to as "Kabuki Theater"
... its all show for the public
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
"destorying" government agencies & programs goes along with the enormous
upswing in outsourcing that occurred last decade. Part of the issue is
gov agencies aren't allowed to lobby congress ... ref from today
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2015/06/20150609-navy-officials-may-have-illegally-lobbied-on-sub-fund.html
... but some folklore outsourcing to "for-profit" companies that standard expectation is 10% of approprations evenly split between lobbiests and congress.
older reference that 70% of intelligence budget and over half the people
is going to for-profit companies
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
above also ref to upswing in private-equity doing LBO of these
for-profit companies ... private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
goes along with Success of Failure ... where there is total
appropriation to beltway bandits by having a series of failures (I've
joked that they are using computer gaming software originally developed
for winning military scenarios adopted to maximizing revenue)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
there is quite a bit witten about revolving door between
pentagon and military industrial complex corporations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
and financial regulatory agencies and wallstreet ... but there is also revolving door with private equity ... recent CIA director resigned in disgrace is now directly at major private equity company (previously the practice was to join beltway bandit that had been acquired by private equity company)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis Date: 09 June, 2015 Blog: FacebookDuring the S&L crisis, securitized mortgages were used to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (poster child was large office bldgs in DFW area that turned out to be empty lots). In the late 90s we were asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents as a countermeasure.
However, in the early part of the century, the sellers found that they
could pay the rating agencies for triple-A (when both the sellers and
the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008
congressional testimony). Triple-A trumps documents and they could now
do no-down, no-documentation lair loans, pay for triple-A and sell to
customers ... including large institutional funds restricted to
dealing in "safe" investments (like large pension funds, claims caused
30% or more loss in pension funds contributing to trillions in pension
shortfall). As a result over $27T was done between 2001 & 2008
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
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
From the law of unintended consequences ... the lack of documentation leads to the TBTF having to setup the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the (missing) documents.
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
If that wasn't enough, they also started doing securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their customers and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail ... creating enormous demand for dodgy loans. After the crash, AIG was largest holder of CDS gambling bets and was negotiating to payoff at 50-60 cents on the dollar. The secretary of treasury steps in and forces AIG to sign document saying AIG can't sue those placing the bets and to take TARP funds to payoff at 100cents on the dollar (largest recipient is institution formally headed by the secretary of treasury) .
The real-estate market was the equivalent to the '29 stock market crash. The easy loans (lenders no longer had to care about borrowers' qualifications since they could unload every mortgage almost as soon as they made it regardless of quality since it was all hidden by the bought & paid for "triple A" ratings) turned lots of markets "hot" and speculators moved in fueling the frenzy (and wallstreet was happy to support the churn). A typical 20-30% hot real estate market with no-down (no-document) one percent liar loan ... yields 2000% ROI. I remember sitting in south florida watching real-estate agents take around parties of 20-30 speculators at a time. Story was that the baby boomers would be starting to retire, selling their million dollar mcmansions and moving to florida with all that money burning holes in their pockets (the speculators were being told they could fleece the retiring baby boomers ... just as soon as the real-estate agents & builders fleeced them).
#1 on times list of those responsible ... where an enormous number of
fraudulent loans originated:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-20/countrywide-s-mozilo-said-to-face-u-s-suit-over-loans.html
and
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html
... and by former head of FDIC large bank examination ... caught WaMu
early on and reported up through the chairman of FDIC, was demoted and
then let go ... still fighting a whistleblower action:
https://www.amazon.com/American-Betrayal-John-Doe-ebook/dp/B00BKZ02UM/
whistleblower
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
but the tens of trillions wouldn't have been possible without wallstreet unloading them with triple-A ratings on their victim clients.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis Date: 10 June, 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
Local washington DC press will periodically refer to congress as
Kabuki Theater ... what you see publicly has little to do with what
really goes on ... and in fact apparent conflict between the two
parties is obfuscation and misdirection.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
Jan2009 I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s senate
hearings into the '29 crash, resulted in criminal convictions and
Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal xrefs and URLs between what
happened then and what happened this time (some reference that the new
congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile
and then get a call saying it wouldn't be needed after all (some
comments about enormous piles of wallstreet money totally burying
washington, possible only 2-3 members of congress haven't been bought
by special interests).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
There are lots of similarities between wallstreet criminal activity in the stock market crash of '29 (and people on wallstreet getting jailterms) and the wallstreet criminal activity in the recent real estate market crash (and nobody doing jailtime).
In fact, the recent economic mess is 70 times larger than the S&L crisis where there was 30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions (with people doing jailtime). This time there has been *NO* criminal referrals and nobody doing jailtime.
In the early part of the century, the "Mortgage Bankers Association"
hosted some financial standards meetings in their new bldg, across the
park from World Bank and IMF bldgs in DC on electronic documents
... apparently in support of what became MERS and part of the
"no-documents" liar loans. Some of MERS is also related to all the
fraud settlements with regard to the robo-signing mills that were
setup to fabricate missing documents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_Electronic_Registration_Systems
Later CBS had news segment on "Mortgage Bankers Association" having lots of press releases telling home owners not to walk away from their underwater mortgages ... and trying to ask the head of the organization why they walked away from the mortgage on their Washington DC headquarters. They had also worked with FBI to make sure that the definition of "mortgage fraud" *ONLY* applied to borrowers and didn't mention lender "mortgage fraud".
past posts mentioning MERS and/or robo-signing mills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#24 What Is MERS and What Role Does It Have in the Foreclosure Mess?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#38 The Death of MERS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#46 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#49 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/2012g.html#8 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#13 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#68 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#55 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#12 Why Auditors Fail To Detect Frauds?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#7 Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#69 Can Open Source Ratings Break the Ratings Agency Oligopoly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#73 These Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Have Gotten Screwed Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#39 The Alchemy of Securitization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#63 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#68 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#46 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#73 Why DOJ Deemed Bank Execs Too Big To Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#80 Why DOJ Deemed Bank Execs Too Big To Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#29 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#9 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#17 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#57 What the Orgy of "Lehman Five Years On" Stories Missed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#58 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#70 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#46 Wells Fargo made up on-demand foreclosure papers plan: court filing charges
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#70 Obama Administration Launches Plan To Make An "Internet ID" A Reality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#54 Has the last fighter pilot been born?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#111 Maine Supreme Court Hands Major Defeat to MERS Mortgage Registry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#14 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#0 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#3 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#16 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#21 Senate Democrats vs. the Middle Class; Senators elected in 2008 made Obama's agenda possible, and its results have harmed most Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#126 Wall Street's Revenge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#131 Memo To WSJ: The CRomnibus Abomination Was Not "A Rare Bipartisan Success"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#48 The 17 Equations That Changed The Course Of History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#90 NY Judge Slams Wells Fargo For Forging Documents... And Why Nothing Will Change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#92 Ocwen's Servicing Meltdown Proves Failure of Obama's Mortgage Settlements
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#0 S&L Crisis and Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#20 $2 Billion City Of Tampa Pension Story Major Media Missed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#22 Two New Papers Say Big Finance Sectors Hurt Growth and Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#24 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#49 Global Fragility and the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#53 Servicers in DOJ s Crosshairs Following JPM Robo-Signing Settlement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#88 How Wall Street captured Washington's effort to rein in banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#4 "Trust in digital certificate ecosystem eroding"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#5 7 years on from crisis, $150 billion in bank fines and penalties
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#18 Can we design machines to automate ethics?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#20 Wall Street Bailouts Are Finally Over, Right?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#28 Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#34 43rd President
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis Date: 10 June, 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
Note that current TBTF fines & fees is claimed to have hit $300B ... but nobody doing jailtime. However when it became apparent that the $700B TARP funds couldn't address the problem, Federal Reserve started providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds. Claim is that TBTF is making $300B/year off ZIRP funds, which more than offsets the total fines and fees so far ... not to mention what they pocketed during the economic mess. Some claim that redirecting the "mortgage market" through wallstreet during the economic mess, resulted in wallstreet tripling in size (as percent of GDP) during last decade. Note however, that the $300B in fines&fees so far isn't just for their illegal activity in the mortgage market ... but also includes other illegal activity, manipulating LIBOR, manipulating Foreign Exchange market, manipulating commodities market, money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists, role in large scale client tax evasion, etc.
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
other trivia ... one of the reasons that we were included in the
"Mortgage Bankers Association" financial standards meetings ... was
that earlier we had been brought in to help wordsmith the Cal. state
electronic signature act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:09:47 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
In the same conferences, the cash management/commerical dial-up banking operations said that they would *NEVER* move to the internet because of the significant security issues ... many that continue to this day ... although most of the commercial operations have since moved to the internet anyway.
part of the issue is that there is much more consumer protection involving fraudulent activity with dail-up banking that don't apply to commercial accounts. Fraud involving commercial accounts have periodically resulted in recommendations that commercial operations have a dedicated PC that is *ONLY* used for online banking and *NEVER* used for anything else (semi-reverything to pre-internet operation).
item from today
European authorities bust cybercrime gang that hijacked business
payments
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2933933/european-authorities-bust-cybercrime-gang-that-hijacked-business-payments.html
past posts mentioning recommendation for commercial/business online
banking dedicated PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#6 Online Banking & Password Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#38 U.K. bank hit by massive fraud from ZeuS-based botnet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#82 Nearly $1,000,000 stolen electronically from the University of Virginia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#87 Nearly $1,000,000 stolen electronically from the University of Virginia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#9 'Here you have' email worm spreads quickly
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#47 ZeuS attacks mobiles in bank SMS bypass scam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#22 An online bank scam worthy of a spy novel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#48 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#4 1st round in Internet Account Fraud World Cup: Customer 0, Bank 1, Attacker 300,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#65 US Business Banking Cybercrime Wave: Is 'Commercially Reasonable' Reasonable?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#40 Banks blocking more fraudulent money transfers from hijacked business accounts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#40 ISBNs
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/2012i.html#18 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#59 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?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#94 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#32 Use another browser - Kaspersky follows suit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#49 Regulator Tells Banks to Share Cyber Attack Information
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#22 The SDS 92, its place in history?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#98 Cybersecurity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#61 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
past posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#10 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#11 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#12 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#13 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#15 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#16 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#19 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#24 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#25 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#26 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#28 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#30 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#35 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#37 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#38 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis Date: 10 June, 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
Note that routing over $27T between 2001&2008 thru wallstreet as (triple-A rated) securitized loans (even when both the sellers and rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A) would have allowed them to skim $3T to possibly $5T during the period, that is in addition to what they were taking in from their other illegal activity (manipulating libor and other markets, money laundering, etc) plus the some $300B/annum they are now making off tens of trillions in ZIRP funds ... easily dwarfs the $300B that has cost them so far (plus it hits the company ... not the individuals responsible and nobody doing jail time).
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
past posts mentioning ZIRP funds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#4 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#10 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#89 Forbes perspective on IBM's troubles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#94 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#95 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#2 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#3 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#4 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#6 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#11 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#23 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#29 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#43 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#58 Wall Street is Taking Over America's Pension Plans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#75 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#99 US Debt In Public Hands Doubles Under Barack Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#28 Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#69 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#70 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:22:30 -0700Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
That is for more than the $27T in (triple-A rated toxic) securitized loans 2001-2008, the CDS gambling bets that securitized loans (designed to fail) would fail, but also manipulating LIBOR, manipulating foreign exchange, manipulating commodities markets, hundreds of billions in qmoney laundering for drug cartels and terrorists, aided tax evasion on trillions of dollars hidden overseas, etc.
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
All would fall under racketerring/RICO statutes which allow taking
triple the amounts involved ... aka easily hits hundred trillion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act
There are periodic references is that even at $300B fines and fees it is
just viewed being viewed as cost of doing (illegal) business. They
would have skimmed $3T to possibly $5T on all the stuff done 2001-2008
in addition to significant amounts on all the illegal activity since
2008. Also the estimate is that they have a $300B/yr benefit off the
tens of trillions in ZIRP funds they get as execuse to keep them from
failing ... aka part of where the too big to fail label came from.
recent posts mentioning ZIRP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#28 Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#69 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#70 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#41 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#43 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
Not being shutdown and the individuals not going to jail also gave rise to too big to prosecute and too big to jail.
One of the gimmicks that the government has used is "deferred prosecution" ... sort of like probation; you don't get shutdown and put in jail if you keep clean for a number of years. The gimmick is that they keep repeatedly getting caught and the government pretends that previous "deferred prosecution" sanctions don't exist.
recent posts mentioning "deferred prosecution"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#10 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#80 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#23 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
one of the issues raised, is that statute of limitations has been
expiring on lots of the illegal activity done last decade, however there
are claims is that lots of the stuff would still fall under
Sarbanes-Oxley ... aka the rhetoric in congress in the early part of the
century was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future ENRONs and
guarantee that executives (and auditors) would do jail time.
sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
I've periodic mentioned that possibly even GAO didn't believe SEC was
doing anything and started doing reports of fraudulent financial
filings, even showing increase after SOX goes into effect (and nobody
doing jail time). financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
also for comparison, the financial mess was 70 times larger than the S&L
crisis where there was 30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal
convictions (this time there have been *NO* criminal referrals, *NO*
criminal convictions, and nobody doing jailtime) ... including
use of RICO during S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act#Michael_Milken
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:07:08 -0700Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
a decade ago there were instructions for using virtual machines ... spin-up online banking from scratch ... and then it was wiped afterwards (sort of virtual approx. to the recommentation for business to use dedicated machine that is *NEVER* used for any other purpose).
a decade before that when we were doing payment gateway for electronic
commerce ... there was defense in depth with several machines along the
path using r/o media. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe operations in the 80s) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 12 Jun 2015 10:37:34 -0700norman.hollander@DESERTWIZ.BIZ (Norman.Hollander) writes:
an example was an internal vm370 4341 8-way cluster effort ... that did a tweak and used full-duplex cluster coordination protocol with 3088/trouter. The communication group forced them to SNA/VTAM before release for customers, cluster coordination operations that had run in subsecond elapsed time was then taking upwards of 30seconds elapsed time over SNA/VTAM.
I've periodically mentioned in 1980, getting con'ed into doing channel
extender support. The STL lab. was bursting at the seams and they were
moving 300 people from the IMS group to offsite bldg ... with remote
access back to the STL datacenter. The group had been offered remote
3270s ... but found the human factors intolerable (compared to what
they had been use to with local 3270 direct channel attached
controllers). The channel extended box allowed downloading channel
programs to the remote site channel emulator ... enormously reducing
the channel protocol chatter latency. this included using multiple
subchannel addresses for full-duplex operations (asynchronous,
continuous incoming and outgoing). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
The hardware vendor tried to get IBM to let them release my support to customers ... but there was a group in POK playing with some serial stuff and they were afraid if it was in the market, it would make it harder to get their stuff released.
A little later in the early 80s, NCAR
http://ncar.ucar.edu/
did a supercomputer filesystem using the same vendor hardware. They
had IBM mainframe as NAS (network attached storage) controller with
IBM DASD ... DASD controllers connected to the vendors emulated
channel. Supercomputers would use the hardware as network interface
to talk to IBM mainframe to request data. The IBM mainframe would
download the channel program to the channel emulator box and then
return the "handle" for the channel program to the requesting
supercomputer. The supercomputers would then directly execute the
channel program (data flowed directly between supercomputer and IBM
DASD, with only IBM mainframe being involved in the control operation,
the same hardware operates as both CTCA, processor-to-processor as
well as processor-to-controller and included family of boxes
interfacing to different kinds of processors, not just ibm
mainframes). I would be periodically be contacted by Boulder branch
because I was considered the IBM expert on the vendor hardware. I was
also being asked IBM DASD questions because bldg. 14 disk engineering
lab had also con'ed me into periodically playing disk engineer
... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
Later in 1988, I was asked to help LLNL
https://www.llnl.gov/
standardize some serial stuff they were working with ... which quickly becomes fibre channel standard ... it included sending i/o programs to remote end for execution and continuous, asynchronous incoming and outgoing (significantly reducing protocol overhead latency). The NCAR NAS stuff was also standardized as "3rd party transfers". By the time the POK serial stuff was released in 1990 with ES/9000 as ESCON, it was already obsolete.
Then some of the POK channel engineers get involved with fibre channel
standard ... and define an enormously heavyweight protocol that
reduces native FCS throughput that is eventually released as FICON
... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
trivia ... in the 80s, concern about US competitiveness in the world motivated congress to pass legislation (including changing some anti-trust provisions) making it easier for gov. agencies and national labs. to work with companies to commercialize gov. technology (including several things from LLNL).
I've mentioned before in the late 80s, a senior disk engineer gets a
talk scheduled at annual, world-wide, internal communication group
conference supposedly on 3174 performance ... but opens the talk with
statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for
the demise of the disk division. The issue was that the communication
group had stranglehold on datacenters with corporate responsibility for
everything that crossed datacenter walls and were fighting off
client/server and distributed computing trying to preserve their dumb
(emulated) terminal paradigm and install base. The disk division was
seeing data fleeing to more distributed computing friendly platforms
with drop in disk sales. The disk division tried to come out with
several products to address the problem, but they were constantly
being vetoed by the communication group. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
As a work around to internal politics, the disk division took to investing in anything that might use IBM DASD ... including "Mesa Archival" ... the NCAR NAS spinoff, part of the push to commercialize gov. tech & improve US competitiveness ... and disk division executive would periodically ask us to go by and try and help them. "Mesa Archival" was working on moving from IBM mainframe to IBM RS/6000 and "3rd party" FCS operation (still using IBM disks).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight? Date: 12 June 2015 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityDo we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
Start of the century rhetoric in congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives (and auditors) did jail time ... however it required SEC to do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't think SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings (even showing increase after sarbanes-oxley goes into effect, *and* nobody doing jailtime). There were complaints about the increase in auditing burden imposed by Sarbanes-Oxley but the jokes were that it was just full employment gift to the audit industry and nothing would actually change.
Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
In the congressional Madoff hearings they had the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff. Congress asked him if new regulations were needed. He replied that while new regulations might be needed ... much more important would be transparency and visibility (i.e. SEC wasn't using the regulatory authority it already had).
Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
In the congressional rating agency hearings into the major role that rating agencies played in the financial mess ... there was testimony that the rating agency business model had become misaligned and it was much harder to provide oversight when business entities are motivated to do the wrong thing (i.e. testimony that ratings were for the benefit of the buyers, but the sellers were paying the rating agencies for triple-A rating, even when both the sellers and rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A). As an aside, Sarbanes-Oxley from early in the century also had additional provisions for SEC to do something about the rating agencies (in addition to SEC was suppose to take action about public company fraudulent financial filings)
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Personal experience from the late 90s:
1) securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (poster child was large office bldgs in dallas/fort worth area that turned out to be empty lots). I was asked to look at improving the integrity of the supporting documents as a countermeasure. However the sellers then found they could pay the rating agencies for triple-A rating (even when they and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A). Triple-A rating trumps supporting documents enabling no-documentation, liar loans ... and with no-documentation ... there was no longer an issue with supporting documentation integrity.
then from the law of unintended consequences, the TBTF have to setup the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the missing documents.
also if that wasn't enough, they start doing securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A rating, sell to their customers, and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail ... greatly increasing the demand for dodgy loans.
2) I was also invited into NSCC (before merger with DTC creating DTCC) to look at improving the integrity of exchange trading transactions. I work on it for awhile and then was told it was being suspended because a side-effect of the improved integrity was much greater transparency and visibility ... something that is antithetical to wallstreet culture (and highlighted in Madoff congressional testimony a decade later).
this is item last decade about wallstreet hasn't anything to worry
about from SEC regarding illegal activity (slightly before HFT really
kicks in)
http://nypost.com/2007/03/20/cramer-reveals-a-bit-too-much/
Being able to pay for triple-A ratings is the major factor in being
able to do over $27T in period 2001-2008 and making the financial mess
70 times larger than the S&L crisis which had 30,000 criminal
referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions (with jail time) ... this
time there has been no criminal referrals or convictions. The over
$27T routed through wallstreet would have allowed them to skim between
$3T-$5T (along with the take on CDS gambling bets on triple-A toxic
CDOs designed to fail)
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
By comparison since then there has been only a total of $300B in fines and fees so far ... but that isn't just for the illegal mortgages activity but lots of other illegal activity, manipulating LIBOR, manipulating foreign exchange, manipulating commodities, hundreds of billions in money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists, facilitating hiding trillions of dollars offshore as part of tax evasion, etc. So the fines & fees would be well under 10% of their take and motivation for the articles that it has become just cost of doing (illegal) business; especially since it has been hitting the business and not the individuals and nobody doing jail time ... as well as the articles referring to too big to fail as too big to prosecute and too big to jail.
libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
One of the series of articles is about the use of "deferred prosecution" ... something like probation, they promise to never do it again or they will go to jail ... however they are repeatedly being caught in illegal activity ... and previous "deferred prosecutions" are being ignored.
In Jan2009, I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s congressional hearings into the crash of '29, resulted in criminal convictions, jail time and Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal xrefs and URLs between what happened then and what happened this time (comments that the new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call saying it wouldn't be needed after all (references to enormous piles of wallstreet money totally burying washington, possibly only 2 or 3 in congress not on the take). During the Dodd-Frank legislative process there were series of articles about it was recognized that something publicly needed to be done ... but they were purposefully making it as complicated and unwieldy as possible to prevent it from ever being able to effectively deter illegal activity (industry was also caught drafting inclusions for the bill that they would then turn around and complain about).
"glass steagall"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
As an aside, local washington DC press would periodically refer to it as Kabuki Theater ... most of what you see publicly going on in congress has very little to do with what is really going on.
Kabuki Theater
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: These are the companies abandoning the U.S. to dodge taxes Date: 12 Jun 2015 Blog: FacebookThese are the companies abandoning the U.S. to dodge taxes
They don't actually have to move hdqtrs offshore ... congress put in
loopholes where they can just ship the profit offshore. Example: large
US manufacturer would directly bill and directly ship to US
distributors. With the loopholes, the hardware is sold to subsidiary
in Luxembourg with no markup and then markup occurs in the sale from
the Luxembourg subsidiary to US distributors (deal is cut with
Luxembourg for next to no taxes) ... the hardware is still shipped
directly.
http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks
I've referenced before that in 2002, congress let the fiscal responsibility act expire (spending couldn't exceed tax revenue). CDO 2010 report says that tax revenue was cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T (compared to fiscal responsibility act baseline budget) for $12T budget gap. In the middle of last decade, the US comptroller general started to include in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic (for how badly they were savaging the budget).
2008 national tv news broadcast a segment of roundtable at annual economists conference. they proposed moving to flat tax as countermeasure to the enormous graft and corruption associated with the current tax codes. They made semi-humorous references to it would never happen because lobbyists and congress make way too much money off creating loopholes in the current infrastructure. Part of the discussion was that congress rather than making loopholes permanent would have loopholes only for short, fixed intervals ... so they can get reoccurring payments to renew the loopholes. Also the farce of disagreements between two parties helps drive up amount paid.
tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax haven, etc. posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
as aside, sale of tax loopholes last decade amounting to trillions of dollars ... is claimed to qualify congress as the most corrupt institution on earth ... also congress are relatively cheap crooks, money for tax loopholes supposedly is by far the highest ROI ... trillions return on the billions spent buying congress
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 18:45:42 -0700US Government Admits 2nd "Chinese" Cyberhack Exposed Military Intel
from above:
The officials said they believe the hack into the security clearance
database was separate from the breach of federal personnel data
announced last week -- a breach that is itself appearing far worse than
first believed. It could not be learned whether the security database
breach happened when an OPM contractor was hacked in 2013, an attack
that was discovered last year. Members of Congress received classified
briefings about that breach in September, but there was no mention of
security clearance information being exposed.
... snip ...
there was also major hack of classified military designs last decade
... including F35 ... although subsequent comments are that F35 is so
bad, it possibly was purposeful to get advisary to waste resources
(as opposed to everybody involved being extraordinarily incompetent)
past references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#62 America Is Basically Helpless Against The Chinese Hackers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#68 NBC's website hacked with malware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#64 NBC's website hacked with malware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#15 Boyd Blasphemy: Justifying the F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#66 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
past posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#10 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#11 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#12 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#13 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#15 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#16 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#19 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#24 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#25 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#26 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#28 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#30 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#35 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#37 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#38 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#42 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#45 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: old amiga HVAC Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 09:41:23 -0700sidd@situ.com (sidd) writes:
past posts mentionin HVAC attack
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#20 How about the old mainframe error messages that actually give you a clue about what's broken
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#100 On a lighter note, even the Holograms are demonstrating
other posts mentioning war dialing:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#38 "war-dialing" etymology?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#41 "war-dialing" etymology?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#48 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#73 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#76 Mainframe hacking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#50 Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#52 Wardialing statistics( was: "Cartons of Punch Cards" )
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#62 Caches, was Wardialing statistics(
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#100 On a lighter note, even the Holograms are demonstrating
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Dilbert 14June2015 Date: 14 June 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Dilbert 14June2015
http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-06-14
Beltway bandits have added a new dimension to this ... periodically
disguised as "leave no money on the table" ... where they have a
series of failures that increases the total money spent (compared to
having immediate success). I've periodically wondered if they haven't
adapted computer war gaming technology for exploring ways to maximize
revenue:
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 09:28:43 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
...
The GOP and ALEC's War on Cities
http://www.beyondchron.org/the-gop-and-alecs-war-on-cities/
Racial Gerrymandering -- As Bad as the Other Kind
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/06/11/racial-gerrymandering-as-bad-as-the-other-kind/
Wisconsin's "Shameful" Gerrymander of 2012
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/02/11968/wisconsins-shameful-gerrymander-2012
Election Rigging, Dark Money in Cantor's "Upset" Loss to Koch Stealth
Candidate
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/24501-election-rigging-dark-money-in-cantors-upset-loss-to-koch-stealth-candidate
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Clearly I'm Not Reading This Right Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 09:57:18 -0700hardware (& software) is being driven to commoditization
How Facebook is eating the $140 billion hardware market
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-open-compute-project-history-2015-6
internet growth (ubiquitous connectivity) has been enabler for big computing farms and cloud computing ... part of commoditization ... sort of old-time service bureau
I've mentioned before we were suppose to get $20M to tie together NSF supercomputing centers ... congress cuts the budget, some other things happen and NSF releases RFP (based in part on what we had been doing). Internal politics prevent us from bidding, director of NSF writes company a letter (with support from other agencies), but that just makes internal politics worse.
As regional networks tie into the centers, it morphs into NSFNET backbone, precursor to modern internet. That also gives rise to "grid computing" (massively growing compute farm datacenters) ... major precursor to cloud computing
Grid Computing
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
Part of this I trace back to getting con'ed into doing 4341 benchmarks
for national lab that was looking at 70 4341s for compute farm ... some old
email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
we were then doing cluster scale-up as part of HA/CMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
... working on both commercial ... reference to early Jan1992 meeting in
Ellison's conference room
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
as well as working with gov. agencies and national labs (including LLNL)
... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
Within few weeks after the Ellison meeting, the cluster scale-up is
transferred, announced as IBM supercomputer and we are told we can't
work on anything with more than four processors. 17Feb1992 press on
supercomputer announce
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
11May1992 press on IBM *surprised* by gov. agencies and national lab
(including LLNL) interest in cluster computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
old NSFNET related email (including reference to conflict with cluster
scale-up meetings and presentation to NSF director)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
past NSFNET related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
past Internet related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
related posting in ibm-main ... i'm still having problems updating
garlic.com personal web pages ... so my 2nd post in this ibm-main archived
thread at google
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/bY9Jn4zm4xs
for some reason large part of post, google archive seems to default as
part of "quoted text" (need to click on "show quoted text" to get first
part of post). hopefully some day soon, it shows up here:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#46 GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe operations in the 80s)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: In Dramatic Decision Judge Finds Fed Bailout Of AIG Was "Illegal", Government "Violated Federal Reserve Act" Date: 15 June 2015 Blog: Google+re:
In Dramatic Decision Judge Finds Fed Bailout Of AIG Was "Illegal",
Government "Violated Federal Reserve Act"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-15/dramatic-decision-judge-finds-fed-bailout-aig-was-illegal-government-violated-federa
News articles at the time was that AIG was negotiating to pay off the CDS gambling bets at 50-60 cents on the dollar. Then secretary of treasury steps in and forces them to sign document that they can't sue those making the CDS gambling bets and forcing them to take TARP funds to pay off the bets at face value (AIG is the largest recipient of TARP funds, and the largest recipient of CDS gambling bet payoffs was the company formally headed by secretary of treasury).
Earlier wall street had found that it could design securitized mortgages to fail, pay for triple-A rating, sell to their customers and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail ... which also created enormous demand for dodgy loans
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
recent references to AIG & TARP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#48 The 17 Equations That Changed The Course Of History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#2 do you blame Harvard for Putin
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#20 Wall Street Bailouts Are Finally Over, Right?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#28 Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#69 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#70 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#39 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Clearly I'm Not Reading This Right Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:39:33 -0700hancock4 writes:
Rhetoric on floor of congress was the primary purpose of GLBA (now better known for repeal of glass-steagall) was that if you already had a federal banking charter you get to keep it, but if you don't already have a federal banking charter you can't get one (attempting to block new competition ... specifically calling out walmart; national banking has enormous fat, overhead, and profits ... TBTF had grave concern that walmart would do to them what it did to retail).
disclaimer: we went to a number of meetings in fayetteville to discuss the subject with the guy that was looking at doing financial services. he said that in walmart customer surveys, the #1 requested (new) item was financial services.
Walmart accounts for something like 25-30% of retail store transactions and similar precentage of payment card transactions. Their (TBTF, national) merchant/acquiring bank makes an enormous amount in interchange fees off those transactions. When walmart announced it was going to buy an ILC (as work around to GLBA) in order to become its own merchant/acquiring bank, there was large national press campaign calling for community banks to lobby congress against letting walmart buy the ILC (because of the enormous threat that it would be to all the community banks in the country). Becoming its own merchant/acquiring bank would have no effect on community banks ... but it would represent an enormous revenue hit to its existing TBTF merchant/acquiring financial institution.
glass-steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
past posts mentioning WALMART & ILC:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#42 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#47 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#7 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#12 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#19 Does anyone know of merchants who have successfully bypassed interchange costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#77 Financial Regulatory Reform - elimination of loophole allowing special purpose institutions outside Bank Holding Company (BHC) oversigh
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#1 Is it possible to have an alternative payment system without riding on the Card Network platforms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#70 Post Office bank account 'could help 1m poor'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#32 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#62 blasts from the past -- old predictions come true
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#63 Wal-Mart to support smartcard payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#28 The Durbin Amendment Ignites a Lobbying Frenzy on Capitol Hill
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#38 Google scares Aussie banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#48 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#55 Are Americans serious about dealing with money laundering and the drug cartels?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#28 Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#20 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#76 Did these tech and telecom companies assess the risk and return with respect to Anti-Money Laundering challenges?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#37 Married Couples and the Financial Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#84 Support Senator Warren's Postal Banking Proposal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#37 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#39 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#46 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Possible Pentagon destruction of evidence in NSA leak case probed Date: 16 June 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Possible Pentagon destruction of evidence in NSA leak case probed
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/06/15/269866/possible-pentagon-destruction.html
Part of the Success Of Failure story
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
past Success Of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Inaugural Podcast: Dave Farber, Grandfather of the Internet Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:21:44 -0700Inaugural Podcast: Dave Farber, Grandfather of the Internet
i periodically pontificate about internet "explosion" ... i.e.
the internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime late '85 or possibly early '86.
the internal network had a form of gateway from just about the beginning. arpanet was saddled with the tightly controlled IMPs ... at the time of the great change over to tcp/ip on 1Jan1983, there were approx. 100 IMPs and 255 connected hosts ... by comparison the internal network was rapidly approaching 1000 nodes.
In fact, for a time the corporate sponsored univ. network (using a form
of the internal network technology) was also larger than the
arpanet/internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
IBM/PCs saw rapid early uptake as 3270 terminals ... a large corporation with business justification for tens of thousands of 3270 terminals could switch to IBM/PC ... single desktop footprint, 3270 dumb terminal emulation and some local computing ... for about the same cost ... little or no (additional) business justification required.
then going into the mid-80s, the communication group was fighting off
client/server and distributed computing, trying to preserve its dumb
terminal paradigm and install base. internal network was still limited
to mainframe nodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
... while the internet was starting to see workstations and PCs
appearing as nodes. some past internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
post listing internal (world-wide) locations that added one or more
network nodes during 1983
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8 Arpa address
the communication group was also active in dirty tricks and
mis-information ... including discussions about how sna/vtam
could be used for NSF (tcp/ip) networking ... some old NSFNET
related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
and posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
somebody had been collecting the sna/vtam mis-information email and
forwarded us a copy ... heavily snipped and redacted to protect the
guilty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
for other comments ... the original mainframe tcp/ip product had been
implemented in vs/pascal (i've commented that it had none of the
buffer/length exploits that have been epidemic in C-language
implementations). For various reasons/stratagies, the throughput was
horribly crippled ... getting about 44kbyte/sec peak throughput using
full 3090 processor. I did the changes to supporf RFC1044 and in some
tuning tests at Cray Research, got channel (1mbyte/sec) sustained
between 4341 and Cray ... using only modest amount of the 4341 processor
(possibly 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed)
... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Time to Fire Mary Jo White: SEC Covers Up for Bank Capital Accounting Scam Promoted by Her Former Firm, Debevoise Date: 16 June 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Time to Fire Mary Jo White: SEC Covers Up for Bank Capital Accounting
Scam Promoted by Her Former Firm, Debevoise
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/time-to-fire-mary-jo-white-sec-covers-up-for-bank-capital-accounting-scam-promoted-by-her-former-firm-debevoise.html
If Elizabeth Warren Is Already Angry at Mary Jo White, Wait Until She
Hears About This
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2015/06/if-elizabeth-warren-is-already-angry-at-mary-jo-white-wait-until-she-hears-about-this/
from above:
Now, Wall Street On Parade has uncovered a major new area of
concern. For more than two years now, SEC Chair Mary Jo White has been
aware that the most dangerous banks on Wall Street, which are publicly
traded securities, have been engaging in "capital relief trades" with
hedge funds and private equity firms to dress up the appearance of
stronger capital while keeping the deteriorating assets on their
books. But neither White nor her Director of Enforcement, Andrew
Ceresney, have put a halt to the practice.
... snip ...
The Whites Go to the SEC: Why Wall Street Still Owns Washington
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2013/03/the-whites-go-to-the-sec-why-wall-street-still-owns-washington/
GAO Report: SEC Is Bungling Collection and Accounting of Billions in
Fines
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/11/gao-report-sec-is-bungling-collection-and-accounting-of-billions-in-fines/
SEC Chair Mary Jo White Earns the Wrath of the Media for Refusing to
Acknowledge High Frequency Trading Perks as a Crime
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/05/sec-chair-mary-jo-white-earns-the-wrath-of-the-media-for-refusing-to-acknowledge-high-frequency-trading-perks-as-a-crime/less
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Why major financial institutions are growing their use of mainframes Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 17 Jun 2015 10:32:41 -0700marktregan@GMAIL.COM (Mark Regan) writes:
She didn't say very long, in part because of on-going periodic battles with communication group trying to force her to use sna/vtam for loosely-coupled operation, as well as very little uptake (at the time) ... except for IMS hot-standby.
Around the turn of the century, we would periodically drop in on the
person that ran large financial transaction operation (33 liberty st,
nyc) ... and he credited 100% uptime to
1) automated operator
2) IMS hot-standby
... he had triple replicated IMS hot-standby operation at geographic
separated sites.
slight topic drift ... when Jim Gray left IBM Research for Tandem, he
palmed off bunch of stuff on me ... DBMS consulting with the IMS
group, interfacing with BofA, early adopter of original relational/SQL
implementation, etc ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
At tandem he did study of what was causing outages. One of the things he
found was that hardware reliability was getting to point where it was
responsible for decreasing percentage of outages and other factors were
starting to dominate ... software faults, people mistakes, environmental
issues like power outages, floods, earthquakes, etc). summary/overview
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/grayft84.pdf
also
https://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/TandemTR86.2_FaultToleranceInTandemComputerSystems.pdf
later we were doing IBM's (RS/6000) HA/CMP ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
and working on both commercial, DBMS ... old reference to Jan1992
meeting in Ellison's conference room
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
as well as technical with gov. agencies and national labs ... some old
email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
While out marketing HA/CMP, I coined the terms geographic
survivability and disaster survivability to differentiate
from disaster/recovery ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
On the commercial side, the mainframe DB2 group were complaining if I was allowed to continue ... it would be at least five years ahead of them. Shortly later, the cluster scale-up part was transferred and announced as the IBM supercomputer for technical and scientific *ONLY* (and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:00:57 -0700Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
city of london, some 9k "human" voters, 32k "corporate" voters,
and world center for tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
and money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
some past posts specific mentiong "city of london"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#3 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#26 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#0 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#6 ACA (Obamacare) website problems--article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#39 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#93 Brand-name companies' secret Luxembourg tax deals revealed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#2 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#124 Commissioner Adrian Leppard calls for legislation to compel the banking system to report fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#8 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#35 Deny the British empire's crimes? No, we ignore them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#56 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Fed agency blames giant hack on 'neglected' security system Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:18:28 -0700hancock4 writes:
The Sunday Times' Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst -- and Filled
with Falsehoods
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden-files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/
and
UK Said To Withdraw Spies After Russia, China Hack Snowden Encryption,
Sunday Times Reports
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-14/uk-said-withdraw-spies-after-russia-china-hack-snowden-encryption-sunday-times-repor
Edward Snowden's Leaked NSA Documents Have Been Decoded By Russia And
China That Have Resulted In The Cancellation Of British And
U.S. Intelligence Operations
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2015/06/edward-snowdens-leaked-nsa-documents.html
Britain pulls out spies as Russia, China crack Snowden files: report
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/14/us-britain-security-idUSKBN0OT0XF20150614
Russia, China reportedly crack Snowden's files, identify US, UK spies
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2935794/russia-china-reportedly-crack-snowdens-files-identify-us-uk-spies.html
Russia, China reportedly crack Snowden's files, identify US, UK spies
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2935792/russia-china-reportedly-crack-snowdens-files-identify-us-uk-spies.html
Russia and China cracked Snowden's files, identified U.S., UK spies
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2935558/cybercrime-hacking/russia-and-china-cracked-snowdens-files-identified-us-uk-spies.html
MI6 withdraws spies after Russia and China gain access to Edward
Snowden files
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mi6-withdraws-spies-after-russia-china-gain-access-edward-snowden-files-1506022
Out from the cold: Snowden leaks forced British spies' pullout from
Russia, China
http://rt.com/news/267067-british-spies-russia-china/
Reports: Britain pulls out spies after Russia, China crack Snowden
files
http://www.dw.de/reports-britain-pulls-out-spies-after-russia-china-crack-snowden-files/a-18516167
'Snowden risked lives' fearfest story prompts sceptical sneers
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/15/russia_china_cracked_snowden_cache_controversy/
British spies 'moved after Snowden files read'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33125068
Report: Russia and China Crack Encrypted Snowden Files
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/15/06/14/0441220/report-russia-and-china-crack-encrypted-snowden-files
China and Russia Almost Definitely Have the Snowden Docs
http://www.wired.com/2015/06/course-china-russia-snowden-documents/
and
Sunday Times Issues DMCA Takedown Notice To the Intercept Over Snowden
Article
http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/06/16/228209/sunday-times-issues-dmca-takedown-notice-to-the-intercept-over-snowden-article
Sunday Times issues DMCA takedown notice to the Intercept over Snowden
article
http://slashdot.org/submission/4527419/sunday-times-issues-dmca-takedown-notice-to-the-intercept-over-snowden-article
Sunday Times fires off copyright complaint slap at Snowden story
critics
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/15/times_snowden_greenwald/
and
How much info did hackers steal on US spies? Try all of it
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/13/standard_form_86_data_breach/
US data breach is intelligence coup for China
http://phys.org/news/2015-06-breach-intelligence-coup-china.html
Dossiers on US spies, military snatched in 'SECOND govt data leak'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/12/second_opm_data_breach/
U.S. now fears second major breach exposed more employee data
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2935357/cybercrime-hacking/us-now-fears-second-major-breach-exposed-more-employee-data.html
US fears second major breach exposed more employee data
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2935712/us-fears-second-major-breach-exposed-more-employee-data.html
US fears second major breach exposed more employee data
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2935713/us-fears-second-major-breach-exposed-more-employee-data.html
Hack of OPM reportedly exposed second set of much more sensitive data
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/hack-of-opm-reportedly-exposed-second-set-of-much-more-sensitive-data/
OPM Breach Scope Widens, Employee Group Blasts Agency For Not
Encrypting Data
http://www.darkreading.com/informationweek-home/opm-breach-scope-widens-employee-group-blasts-agency-for-not-encrypting-data/d/d-id/1320848
Catching Up on the OPM Breach
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/catching-up-on-the-opm-breach/
Lawmakers worry US OPM breaches endanger national security
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2936854/lawmakers-worry-us-opm-breaches-endanger-national-security.html
Lawmakers worry US OPM breaches endanger national security
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2936852/lawmakers-worry-us-opm-breaches-endanger-national-security.html
Lawmakers fear recent U.S. gov't breaches endanger national security
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2936184/cybercrime-hacking/lawmakers-fear-recent-us-govt-breaches-endanger-national-security.html
Sex, lies and debt potentially exposed by U.S. data hack
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/15/us-cybersecurity-usa-exposure-idUSKBN0OV0CC20150615
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:52:53 -0700"John Chance" <JCJC@gmail.com> writes:
sort of like the claims that britain had the food that could have been shipped to ireland averting the irish famine ... but in this case it was possibly as much as 6mil indians (similar to number for the holocaust in ww2).
recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#16 Keydriven bit permutations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#54 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#56 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
this ref is that it was between 1.5m & 4m
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 12 Reasons America Doesn't Win Its Wars Date: 17 June 2015 Blog: Google+re:
12 Reasons America Doesn't Win Its Wars
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/12-reasons-america-doesnt-win-its-wars/
Too many parties now benefit from perpetual warmaking for the U.S. to
ever conclude its military conflicts.
... snip ...
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Order in Chaos: The Memoirs of General of Panzer Troops Hermann Balck,
loc4623-26:
The analysis of intelligence is probably the most complicated sphere
of human action, one that requires a limitless amount of experience,
knowledge of human nature, languages, geography, and character
analysis--all skills that are more than rare. The Slavic institutes in
the universities had an ominous influence because Hitler listened to
them, and these institutes only presented what Hitler wanted to
hear. Quidquid delirant reges plectuntur Achivi, or "The soldier has
to suffer for it."
... snip ...
from National Insecurity pg248/3534-40:
The Team B experience was the first instance of institutionalized
militarization of intelligence imposed on the CIA from the White
House. The first instance of the CIA's internal militarization of
intelligence took place in the 1980s, when President Reagan appointed
a right-wing ideologue, Bill Casey, to be CIA director, and Casey
appointed a right-wing ideologue, Bob Gates, to be his deputy. Casey
and Gates combined to "cook the books" on a variety of issues,
including the Soviet Union, Central America, and Southwest Asia,
tailoring intelligence estimates to support the military policies of
the Reagan administration. After he left the CIA in 1993, Gates
admitted that he had become accustomed to Casey "fixing" intelligence
to support policy on many issues. He did not describe his own role in
support of Casey.
pg261/loc3722-24:
Cheney and Rumsfeld resorted to the same technique they had used in
1976, when they had worked for President Ford. In the 1970s, they had
created Team B at the CIA in order to politicize intelligence on
Soviet military power. In 2002, they politicized intelligence in order
to take the country to war against Iraq.
... snip ...
and Merchants of Doubt, pg47/loc1209-14:
Team B's Claims turned out to be more than a little exaggerated. Later
analyses would show that the Soviet Union had not achieved strategic
superiority, they had not implemented a missile defense system beyond
their single Moscow installation, and they certainly never achieved
the ability to dictate U.S. policy. One anecdote perhaps tells the
whole story: A few years after the Soviet Union collapsed, one of
Teller's proteges toured a site that the Team B panel had believed was
a Soviet beam-weapon test facility; it turned out to be a rocket
engine test facility. It had nothing at all to do with beam weapons.
... snip ...
and Prophets of War pg134/loc2273-74:
Another Team B member who was to make his mark later, under the
administration of George W. Bush, was Paul Wolfowitz.
... snip ...
Rumsfield white house chief of staff 74-75 (and supposedly organized
replacement of CIA director), then when he becomes SECDEF, 75-77, he
is replaced by one of his staffers, Dick Cheney. He is again SECDEF
2001-2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld
When Rumsfeld was white house chief of staff 74-75, Cheney was on his
staff. Cheney then becomes white house chief of staff when Rumsfeld
becomes SECDEF. Cheney is then SECDEF from 89-93 and VP 2001-2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney
another "Team B"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
He is a leading neoconservative.[4] As Deputy Secretary of Defense, he
was "a major architect of President Bush's Iraq policy and ... its
most hawkish advocate."[5] In fact, "the Bush Doctrine was largely
[his] handiwork."
... snip ...
"team b" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:04:19 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Money Flows Out of 401(k) Plans as Baby Boomers Age; Withdrawals from
401(k) retirement plans exceed new contributions, a shift that could
shake up U.S. retirement industry
http://www.wsj.com/articles/net-outflows-befall-401-k-plans-1434408836
aka baby boomers retiring so they stop paying into their 401Ks and start withdrawing ... following generation working & paying into their 401Ks is smaller so there is smaller NET being paid into plans ... than the baby boomers are withdrawing.
the issue with looting the SS Trust Fund is there is nothing left to withdraw ... it has to come out of the funds that the following generation is paying in ... the looting of the "SS Trust Fund" results in turning it into something akin to PONZI scheme ... since the PONZI operators have made off with the $2.7T (at least the 401Ks are different individual plans compared to the consolidated SS Trust Fund)
on the subject of retirement plans ... from today:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/18/the-last-jeb-killed-for-slavery-the-last-bush-killed-for-oil/
claims that during the Jeb days, Florida invested employee pension plan in ENRON ... so not only did the ENRON employees loose their pensions ... but also state of florida.
posts mentioning ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
other recent posts mentioning looting of SS Trust Fund and baby boomers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#33 OT: article on foreign outsourcing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#42 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#4 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#7 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#40 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#41 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#57 email security re: hotmail.com
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#62 Medicare Part B premiums increasing up to 30%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#66 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#68 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#75 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#37 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#39 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 17:07:13 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
then there is "anchor babies"
Federal Agents Raid Alleged 'Maternity Tourism' Businesses Catering to Chinese
http://www.wsj.com/articles/us-agents-raid-alleged-maternity-tourism-anchor-baby-businesses-catering-to-chinese-1425404456
and Naked Official
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_official
America revealed as top spot for China's 'naked officials'
http://www.icij.org/blog/2014/08/america-revealed-top-spot-chinas-naked-officials
first part of 90s business trips to hong kong, 747s flying west coast to hong kong weren't full ... but returns flts were packed, explanation people leaving before turn-over.
there were stories from both vancouver (BC) and silicon valley where individual going around with real estate agent looking at homes ... and then buying multiple houses at a time and paying cash.
past posts mentioning business trips to hong kong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#49 Withdrawal Announcement 901-218 - No More 'small machines'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#16 OS Workloads : Interactive etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#18 Opinion on smartcard security requested
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#66 OT (sort-of) - Does it take math skills to do data processing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#54 Smartcards and devices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#33 [IBM-MAIN] NY Times editorial on white collar jobs going
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#20 I told you ... everybody is going to Dalian,China
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#16 Outsourcing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#18 Outsourcing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#33 The 8008
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#21 Taxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#1 Greatest Software Ever Written?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#30 V2X2 vs. Shark (SnapShot v. FlashCopy)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#7 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#9 What do YOU call the # sign?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#34 What do YOU call the # sign?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#85 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#61 Study Finds Sharp Math, Science Skills Help Expand Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#14 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#19 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#42 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#27 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#1 My Funniest or Most Memorable Moment at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#4 Strings story
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#55 Can outsourcing be stopped?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#71 What do you think is holding up the use of cellphone-initiated micro payments in the U.S.?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#20 Five great technological revolutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#28 PCI Council Releases Recommendations For Preventing Card-Skimming Attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#59 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#80 Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#85 The Grand Message in the Conceptual Spiral
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#95 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#27 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#66 fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#5 Remember 3277?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:47:50 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
If You Want To Know The Real Rate Of Inflation, Don't Bother With The
CPI
http://www.forbes.com/sites/perianneboring/2014/02/03/if-you-want-to-know-the-real-rate-of-inflation-dont-bother-with-the-cpi/
"Why does the government want low inflation numbers?"
"The CPI doesn't even meet the government's definition of inflation"
"The CPI doesn't meet other government agency's inflation measurements
either"
... snip ...
as an aside, griftopia had chapter on the spike in oil way over $100 the
summer of 2008. recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#34 Ten Banks, Including JPM, Goldman, Deutsche, Barclays, SocGen And UBS, Probed For Gold Rigging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#34 43rd President
CFTC had rule that players had to have significant position in order to play because speculators resulted in wild, irrational price moves (speculators making money on price change, both up & down). Then 19 "secret letters" are sent out allowing selected speculators to play ... which resulted in huge spike in oil price summer 2008.
griftopia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
Then 2011, a senator releases transaction detail showing speculators responsible for the huge oil spike 2008. Then lots of stuff in the press how the senator violated the privacy of the corporations showing that they were responsible for huge 2008 oil spike.
This topic shows up in some of the recent trade treaty negotiations
with clauses that would prevent divulging such information ... also
corporations are "people" (and can vote)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#60 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
as an aside ... it is somewhat more related to necessities ... food, air, water. for some time, transportation, fertilizer, machinery (oil) was major cost component of food ... in part because air & water have been nearly free. Various droughts are changing some of that.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:12:02 -0700greymausg <maus@mail.com> writes:
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#44 Kabuki Theater 1603-1629
Spence's "The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World"
https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/B004EPYWCO
claims in resource rich countries that there is epidemic of leaders
pillaging the economy & resources ... making it difficult for
developing resource rich countries to transition to stable
democracies. loc1966-67:
The Botswana case illustrates that the natural resource "curse,"
though pervasive, is not inevitable, and that leadership matters at
crucial points.
... snip ...
other recent reference to Spence's book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#35 The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#36 The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
and similar from Diamond's: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human
Societies
https://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Societies-ebook/dp/B000VDUWMC
loc4781-82;
At worst, they function unabashedly as kleptocracies, transferring net
wealth from commoners to upper classes.
... snip ...
other references to Botswana somewhat escaping the natural resource
"curse"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#70 The Army and Special Forces: The Fantasy Continues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#81 GBP13tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#69 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
Churchill's book has reference to Iran having getting democratic elected
government ... and the new government reversing the looting of Iran oil
but not the subsequent by Kermit Roosevelt (aka CIA) to restore the
Shah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt,_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
and to help keep him in power, US trained (including Norman Schwarzkopf)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK
past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#93 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#95 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#35 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#41 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#70 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#70 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#78 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
then after Shah was disposed in 1979 revolution ... US supporting
Iraq. a little background, replacing CIA director that would go along
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
Team B was also involved in supplying Saddam with weapons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
including WMDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
team b posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
replacement CIA director then is VP ... at one point claims no knowledge of such activities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
and
http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
more recent:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/jeb-bush-forest-gump-financial-improprieties.html
then there is also "Keating Five"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
one of the targets of "Keating Five"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
those advisers/analysts are there for Iraq1. Sat. photo recon analyst
warns that Iraq is marshaling forces for Kuwait invasion; administration
says that Saddam told them he would do no such thing ... administration
proceeds to discredit the analyst. Analyst then warns that Iraq is
marshaling forces for Saudi invasion ... now the administration is
forced to choose between Iraq and Saudi.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
and still there with Bush2 for Iraq2 fabricate WMD justification. cousin
of the white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing with the Iraqis
at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had been decommissioned,
notifies her cousin, Powell and others; then gets locked up in military
hospital
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
from the law of unintended consequences, for Iraq2, they were told to
bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs ... when they get around to going
back, more than a million metric tons have evaporated. They then start
seeing large artillery shell IEDs, even taking out Abram M1s
https://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-ebook/dp/B004IATD6U/
they eventually find the decommissioned WMDs tracing back to US in the
80s ... takes nearly a decade beofre th information is declassified
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
note corporate representatives had approached former eastern bloc
countries and tell them if they vote in UN for invasion of iraq, they
will get approval to join NATO and directed appropriation USAID (that
can only be used for buying modern arms from US military-industrial
complex).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
"Economic Hit Man"
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man-ebook/dp/B001AFF266
has 1st world countries resorting to all sorts of scams for looting 3rd world countiries including revolutions that put in their "bought and paid for" dictators.
past "economic hit man" refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#63 21st Century Management approach?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#71 A question for the readership
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#80 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#111 Matt Taibbi with Xmas Message from the Rich
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#25 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#57 Study Confirms The Government Produces The Buggiest Software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#70 Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#70 The Army and Special Forces: The Fantasy Continues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#81 GBP13tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#45 If all of the American earned dollars hidden in off shore accounts were uncovered and taxed do you think we would be able to close the deficit gap?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#60 The IBM mainframe has been the backbone of most of the world's largest IT organizations for more than 48 years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#83 Protected: R.I.P. Containment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#2 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#93 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#95 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#98 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#7 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#25 What Makes bank regulation and insurance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#51 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#78 Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#69 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#80 The REAL Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#40 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#62 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#41 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#49 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#37 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#47 Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#66 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#70 Alan Grayson: Is Keith Alexander Selling Classified Information to the Banks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#104 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#1 do you blame Harvard for Puten
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#4 Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#13 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal (for avoiding OOO) Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:52:52 -0700Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Cambridge's HPC-as-a-service for boffins, big and small Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:07:56 -0700Cambridge's HPC-as-a-service for boffins, big and small However, a "step change in data storage" needed
mentions going from 30racks to 100racks ... but presumably they are also upgrading the processors in the racks for significantly more increase in power
past history
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
recent mention
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#47 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#53 Clearly I'm Not Reading This Right
was forerunning to cloud computing and megadatacenters ... (millions of
processors and hundreds of thousands of systems)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#7 mainframe "selling" points
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#8 mainframe "selling" points
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#10 FW: mainframe "selling" points -- Start up Costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#15 A Private life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#25 Still think the mainframe is going away soon: Think again. IBM mainframe computer sales are 4% of IBM's revenue; with software, services, and storage it's 25%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#91 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#19 Where Does the Cloud Cover the Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#28 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#35 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#37 Where Does the Cloud Cover the Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#51 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#61 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#70 How internet can evolve
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#73 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#74 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#7 SAS Deserting the MF?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#12 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#21 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#43 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#45 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#40 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#60 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#66 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#23 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#24 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#32 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#62 Mainframe vs Server - The Debate Continues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#63 Mainframe vs Server - The Debate Continues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#70 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#53 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#56 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#50 Mainframe On Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#70 50,000 x86 operating system on single mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#33 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#35 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#38 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#61 Bet Cloud Computing to Win
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#71 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#23 Scary Sysprogs and educating those 'kids'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#94 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#4 IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud ($1.2B)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#27 IBM sells x86 server business to Levono
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#72 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#108 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#4 Can the mainframe remain relevant in the cloud and mobile era?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#8 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#12 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#53 IBM hopes new chip can turn the tables on Intel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#69 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#80 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#84 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#86 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#4 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#20 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#65 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#5 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#24 IBM Opens New SoftLayer Data Center In Hong Kong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#33 Can Ginni really lead the company to the next great product line?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#46 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#57 [CM] Mainframe tech is here to stay: just add innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#68 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#5 "F[R]eebie" software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#20 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#87 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#2 Flat (VSAM or other) files still in use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#0 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#56 This Chart From IBM Explains Why Cloud Computing Is Such A Game-Changer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#90 What's the difference between doing performance in a mainframe environment versus doing in others
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#113 How Much Bandwidth do we have?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#129 Is there an Inventory of the Installed Mainframe Systems Worldwide and or for Europe alone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#144 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#145 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#155 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#166 Slushware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#170 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#35 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#46 Why on Earth Is IBM Still Making Mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#78 Is there an Inventory of the Inalled Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#82 Is there an Inventory of the Installed Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#57 Economics of Mainframe Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#30 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#50 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Encryption "would not have helped" at OPM, says DHS official Date: 19 June 2015 Blog: FacebookEncryption "would not have helped" at OPM, says DHS official Attackers had valid user credentials and run of network, bypassing security.
Note that last decade there was an enormous uptick in gov. outsourcing (in fact current president had major item to reverse it in his original platform running for president) ... for instance 70% of current intelligence budget is for-profit companies. A large percentage of these companies where then put thru LBO by private-equity companies (which may use every scheme possible to loot money) ... this includes snowden's employer and many of the companies doing security clearances (including filling out paperwork w/o actually performing any sort of security check). Claim is over half corporate defaults are companies that have been put thru LBO (and looted). So it is trivial to find that they in turn, outsource to lowest bidder.
other trivia: president of AMEX is in competition to be the next CEO
and wins (the looser leaves taking his protegee and goes to Baltimore,
taking over what has been described as loan sharking business). AMEX
is in competition with KKR for private-equity take-over of RJR and KKR
wins. KKR then runs into trouble with RJR and hires away the AMEX
president to turn around RJR. IBM has gone into the red and is in the
process of being broken up into the 13 "baby blues". The board then
hires away the former president of AMEX to reverse the breakup and
resurrect IBM. Uses some of same techniques at IBM that had been used
at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
Later the former president of AMEX leaves IBM and becomes head of
another large private-equity company which does LBO of company that
employed Snowden:
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent
of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than
half of the available manpower. They're not going away any time soon
unless the CIA and NSA want to start over and with some off-the-shelf
laptops, networked by the Geek Squad from Best Buy. Security
clearances used to be a government function too, but are now a profit
center for various private-equity subsidiaries.
... snip ...
especially when they get paid for doing background checks but just fillout paperwork and skip the checks.
account of how private-equity turned LBO into similar to house
flipping, except the loan stays with the company when it sells; they
can even sell for much less than they paid and still walk away with
boatloads of money (major factor in spike in corporate defaults).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
posts mentioning private-equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:57:26 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
real estate speculators played role in the economic mess.
securitized mortgages had been used Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages ... but had limited market. In the late 90s we were asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents as a countermeasure.
In the early part of the century, the sellers found that they could
pay the rating agencies for triple-A (when both the sellers and the
rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008
congressional testimony). Triple-A trumps documents and they could now
do no-down, no-documentation lair loans, pay for triple-A and sell to
customers ... including large institutional funds restricted to
dealing in "safe" investments (like large pension funds, claims caused
30% or more loss in pension funds contributing to trillions in pension
shortfall). As a result over $27T was done between 2001 & 2008
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
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
From the law of unintended consequences ... the lack of documentation leads to the TBTF having to setup the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the (missing) documents.
If that wasn't enough, they also started doing securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their customers and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail ... creating enormous demand for dodgy loans. After the crash, AIG was largest holder of CDS gambling bets and was negotiating to payoff at 50-60 cents on the dollar. The secretary of treasury steps in and forces AIG to sign document saying AIG can't sue those placing the bets and to take TARP funds to payoff at 100cents on the dollar (largest recipient of CDS gambling payoffs was institution formally headed by the secretary of treasury) .
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, and too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
basically wallstreet needed lots of speculators (taking out liar loans) to generate that $27+T ... they wouldn't be paying cash. Speculators would get no-down, no-documentation 1% interest liar loans ... and in hot speculator real estate markets with 20-30% per annum ... would be 2000% (or better) ROI. Paying cash would just be 20% ROI rather than 2000% ROI.
I remember visiting southern florida and sitting in starbucks near new condo development ... and watching real estate agent taking tours of 20-30 people at a time around the bldgs. Real-estate agents and builders spin was that the baby boomers would be retiring, selling their million dollar mcmansions and moving to florida with enormous amount of money in their pockets ... and that the speculators could fleece the baby boomers of all that money (however, wallstreet was fleecing everybody with their triple-A rated toxic CDOs).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:23:25 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
note that private-equity companies played their part in contributing
to economic mess last decade
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
then more recently they were buying up large blocks of foreclosed properties ... for speculation ... some being rented out until they could flip them.
Hedge Funds | Private Equity; Investors Who Bought Foreclosed Homes in
Bulk Look to Sell
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/investors-who-bought-foreclosed-homes-in-bulk-look-to-cash-in/
How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick
Scheme -- Again Hedge funds and private equity firms have quietly bought
200,000 cheap, mostly foreclosed houses in cities hardest hit by the
economic meltdown.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/wall-street-buying-foreclosed-homes
Private Equity Readying a Run on Foreclosures
http://www.cnbc.com/id/45945390
Private Equity Bets Billions on Foreclosures
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2012-07-26/private-equity-bets-billions-on-foreclosures
Private Equity Taps Builders as Foreclosures Vanish
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-05-14/private-equity-taps-builders-as-foreclosures-vanish
Private Equity's Foreclosures for Rentals Net 8%: Mortgages
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-13/private-equity-buying-u-s-foreclosures-for-hot-rentals-net-8-mortgages
There was recently item that Seattle area (south of vancouver) rents are up 17% ... which is major hit to retirees on SS.
private-equity LBOs of corporation compared to house flipping ...
except the loan stays with the company when it is sold; they can
sell for much less they paid and still walk away with boat loads
of money. Half corporate defaults are companies put through the
private-equity process ... but the credit rating hit is to
the bought companies not to the private-equity companies that
originally took out the loan
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:55:53 -0700greymausg <maus@mail.com> writes:
"long strange journey" by sat. photo recon analyst portrays it as nothing really happened until he reported they were marshaling forces for saudi invasion (which would have forced them to choose between their support for Iraq and their support for Saudi Arabia).
recent reference ... desert storm lasting 42 days ... but land
war was only the last 100hrs (4days)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#9 Why do we keep loosing
and here:
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/2015/05/29/why-do-we-keep-losing/
there have been all sorts of claims about battles during those 100hrs ... but the GAO air campaign effectiveness study has iraqis walking away from their positions because of being sitting duck targets from air strikes. I've been told that combat engineers cross the berms 3 days before the land war kicked off in Bradleys and were 50miles into enemy territory and not taking any enemy fire
this recent item has Rhodesia the poster child for colonial exploration
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/why-white-supremacists-identify-with-rhodesia-480b37f3131f
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:42:09 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
had different take ... it claims that there was prediction that there was going to be enormous increase in street crime in the 90s ... which didn't happen ... but not because of police presence ... but because of uptic in abortions ... supposedly correlating unwanted children and street crime
there is something different going on now ... privatizing gov. ...
includes privatizing prisons and bribes to sentence lots of
low-maintenance individuals to extended prison sentences ... resulting
in US has the world's highest incarceration rate ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#37 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#61 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#82 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#34 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#10 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#25 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 19:19:49 -0700Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
Another hit are institutions calculating pension funding liabilities based on non-existent interest rates.
Cities, States Shun Moody's For Blowing The Whistle On Pension
Liabilities
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-19/cities-states-shun-moodys-blowing-whistle-pension-liabilities
SS benefits for the baby boomer bubble were supposedly to come out of the $2.7T in the SS Trust Fund ... however with the looting of the $2.7T in the SS Trust Fund ... their SS benefits have to come out of current tax collections. this becomes more onerous as all of the baby bubble move into retirement ... and the following (smaller) generation has to cover the benefits with their taxes (making up the $2.7T that had been looted from the SS trust fund).
there are now periodic calls for drastically reducing the baby boomer SS
burden on the following generation ... which is something of semantic
distinction since they are actually being required to replace the looted
$2.7T.
http://www.cepr.net/press-center/press-releases/statement-on-the-gang-of-six-plan
manipulating inflation rate to affect COLA also plays into this
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#62 Medicare Part B premiums increasing up to 30%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#66 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#66 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionaliy
recent posts on SS Trust Fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#4 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#7 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#40 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#41 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#62 Medicare Part B premiums increasing up to 30%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#66 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#68 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#75 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#82 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#37 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#64 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 21:11:57 -0700re:
oh and somebody's recent SS from today
Why Not Just Use The "AMAZING LEGAL TRICK" Of Not Burdening Working
Stiffs With FICA Taxes?
http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2015/06/why-not-just-use-amazing-legal-trick-of.html
Social Security, FICA Taxes and CWICA Taxes
http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2015/06/social-security-fica-taxes-and-cwica.html
references:
Social Security History
http://www.ssa.gov/history/Gulick.html
Special Security History
http://www.ssa.gov/history/perkins5.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 09:33:36 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
but have you read all the stuff about the glorious victories by coalition land forces during those last 100hrs.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Fed agency blames giant hack on 'neglected' security system Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 15:18:55 -0700re:
Report: One of OPM's IT Contractors Was Located in Mainland China
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/06/17/report-one-of-opms-it-contractors-was-located-in-mainland-china/
Note that last decade there was an enormous uptick in gov. outsourcing (in fact current president had major item to reverse it in his original campaign platform for president) ... for instance 70% of current intelligence budget is for-profit companies. A large percentage of these companies where then put thru LBO by private-equity companies (which may use every scheme possible to loot money) ... this includes snowden's employer and many of the companies doing security clearances (including filling out paperwork w/o actually performing any sort of security check). Claim is over half corporate defaults are companies that have been put thru LBO (and looted). So it is trivial to find that they in turn, outsource to lowest bidder.
private-equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
other trivia: president of AMEX is in competition to be the next CEO and
wins (the looser leaves taking his protegee and goes to Baltimore,
taking over what has been described as loan sharking business). AMEX is
in competition with KKR for private-equity take-over of RJR and KKR
wins. KKR then runs into trouble with RJR and hires away the AMEX
president to turn around RJR. IBM has gone into the red and is in the
process of being broken up into the 13 "baby blues". The board then
hires away the former president of AMEX to reverse the breakup and
resurrect IBM. Uses some of same techniques at IBM that had been used at
RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
Later the former president of AMEX leaves IBM and becomes head of
another large private-equity company which does LBO of company that
employed Snowden:
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent of
the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than half of
the available manpower. They're not going away any time soon unless the
CIA and NSA want to start over and with some off-the-shelf laptops,
networked by the Geek Squad from Best Buy. Security clearances used to
be a government function too, but are now a profit center for various
private-equity subsidiaries.
... snip ...
especially when they get paid for doing background checks but just fillout paperwork and skip the checks.
How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington
account of how private-equity turned LBO into similar to house
flipping, except the loan stays with the company when it sells; they
can even sell for much less than they paid and still walk away with
boatloads of money (major factor in spike in corporate defaults).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
companies in the private-equity mill are under enormous pressure to generate money every way possible (including the security clearance companies just doing paperwork and skipping actually doing any checking). there has been long standing revolving door between gov and beltway bandits and/or wallstreet ... example is recent CIA director resigned in disgrace including slap on the wrist for leaking classified documents ... joins KKR.
disclaimer; early 90s, AMEX spins off much of its financial dataprocessing in what was the largest IPO up until that time. Later it merges with another financial dataprocessing acquiring Western Union. Last decade, huge spike in illegal workers sending paychecks home, WU grows to half corporate revenue. Corporate hdqtrs is lopped off (I'm doing stint as chief scientist attached to corp hdqtrs and am collateral damage), WU is spun-off and KKR then takes remaining private in what was the largest reverse-IPO/LBO up until that time (15yrs after being the largest IPO).
related to massive uptic in outsourcing last decade is the Success Of Failure
activity ... helping to further increase take from the gov.
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Fed agency blames giant hack on 'neglected' security system Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 09:40:02 -0700re:
Officials: Chinese had access to U.S. security clearance data for one
year
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/06/18/officials-chinese-had-access-to-u-s-security-clearance-data-for-one-year/
Hackers had access to security clearance data for a year; The
U.S. government still isn't saying how much data it fears was stolen
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2938654/cybercrime-hacking/hackers-had-access-to-security-clearance-data-for-a-year.html
Hackers who breached a database containing highly personal information
on government employees with security clearances had access to the
system for about a year before being discovered, The Washington Post
reported on Friday. The breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel
Management dates back to June or July last year and was only discovered
earlier this month.
...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 13:26:08 -0700Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:
"Great Deformation"
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Deformation-Corruption-Capitalism-ebook/dp/B00B3M3UK6/
pg457/loc9844-46:
The leader was ExxonMobil, which repurchased $160 billion of its own
shares during 2004-2011. It was followed by Microsoft at $100 billion,
IBM at $75 billion, and Hewlett-Packard, Proctor & Gamble, and Cisco
with $50 billion each. Even the floundering shipwreck of merger mania
known as Time Warner Inc. bought back $25 billion.
pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company spent
a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure that was
equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
Big Blue: Stock Buyback Machine On Steroids
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-17/big-blue-stock-buyback-machine-steroids
I've periodically referred to tv news broadcast towards end of last
decade of roundtable discussion during annual economist conference
where they discussed move "flat tax" ... motivation was to reduce the
enormous graft & corruption in the current system ... contributing
to congress being considered the most corrupt institution in the world
(corporations paying for trillions in tax loopholes).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
Congress had let the fiscal responsibility act expire in 2002
(required spending not exceed tax revenue). 2010 CBO report had tax
revenue cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T budget gap
(compared to the fiscal responsibility base line budget).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
Part of the ambiquity with wallstreet now is too big to fail
and the repeal of Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
depository institutions were supposedly under fairly strict regulatory control because tax payers were on the hook for failures. Glass-Steagall kept the "regulated", "safe" depository institutions separate from unregulated, risky investment banking. Repeal of Glass-Steagall changed that and now they keep the upside when they win on extremely risky bets ... but the tax payers are on the hook for the downside of those extremely risky bets ... scenario is frequently referred to as "moral hazard".
#2 on times list of those responsible for the economic mess last
decade
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
including repeal of Glass-Steagall in his GLBA legislation
... but also his role in preventing CDS gambling bets from being
regulated. The CDS gambling bets were originally characterized as gift
to ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
The rhetoric in congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future
ENRONs ... however it requires SEC to do something. Possibly because
even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing
reports of fraudulent financial filings ... even showing increase
after Sarbanes-Oxley goes into effect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
However, unregulated CDS also play major role in financial mess (besides ENRON)
Last decade, economic mess was 70 times larger than S&L crisis. Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages ... but had limited market. In the late 90s we were asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents as a countermeasure.
In the early part of the century, the sellers found that they could pay
the rating agencies for triple-A (when both the sellers and the rating
agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional
testimony, trivia, Sarbanes-Oxley also required SEC to do something
about rating agencies). Triple-A trumps documents and they could now do
no-down, no-documentation liar loans, pay for triple-A and sell to
customers ... including large institutional funds restricted to dealing
in "safe" investments (like large pension funds, claims caused 30% or
more loss in pension funds contributing to trillions in pension
shortfall). As a result over $27T was done between 2001 & 2008
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
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
From the law of unintended consequences ... the lack of documentation leads to the TBTF having to setup the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the (missing) documents.
If that wasn't enough, they also started doing securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their customers and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail ... creating enormous demand for dodgy loans. After the crash, AIG was largest holder of CDS gambling bets and was negotiating to payoff at 50-60 cents on the dollar. The secretary of treasury steps in and forces AIG to sign document saying AIG can't sue those placing the bets and to take TARP funds to payoff at 100cents on the dollar (AIG is largest recipient of TARP funds, and largest receipient of CDS face-value payoffs is the institution formally headed by the secretary of treasury) .
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:31:21 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
IBM employee unions have filed legal action over the change in pension
plans. some of the articles referenced that in the 90s, a number of
large corporations got together lobbied (bribed) congress to change
pension plan accounting rules so that they could be listed as an asset
rather than liability. The initial effect was a one time boost in stock
price (since value/stock jumped) giving the executives at the time a big
boost in their bonus. The next effect was that pensions (as an asset)
would be subject to liquidation in case of bankruptcy. some discussed
here
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
also in the 90s, a number of large corporations redid their books so that major part of profit was moved to separate corporate entities that had relatively few staff and the people intensive part were break-even or loss. Airlines moved the profit to ticket selling while actual airline operation were break-even (or a loss) ... the parent company could still show a overall profit (from the ticket sales) even when airline operations were having large loss. This was bargaining strategy in dealing with the unions (aka manipulating earnings/employee) and also made it easier to have the airline operations declare bankruptcy and unload remaining pension liability. Auto manufacturing did something similar so that profit was moved to financial operations (financial operations and ticketing being largely computerized).
past posts that referencing PBGC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#61 Health Care
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#91 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#38 What do YOU call the # sign?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#13 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#77 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#94 Bankruptcy a reprieve for some companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#4 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#8 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#24 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#90 Is IBM Suddenly Vulnerable To A Takeover?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#7 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#59 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
last decade the corporation strategy was expanded with lobbying
(bribing) congress for trillions in tax loopholes ... where the profit
was moved to a different corporate entity outside the country ...
making the people intensive operation appear as break-even or loss and
profit moved to a different tax jurisdiction that was negotiated to be
close to zero. Luxembourg strategy
http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks
and recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#86 Brand-name companies' secret Luxembourg tax deals revealed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#93 Brand-name companies' secret Luxembourg tax deals revealed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#95 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#52 Report: Tax Evasion, Avoidance Costs United States $100 Billion A Year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#46 Remember 3277?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#4 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#48 These are the companies abandoning the U.S. to dodge taxes
past posts mentioning tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax havens, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
past posts referencing retirement heist:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#60 Retirement Heist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#63 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#67 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#4 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#6 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#12 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#15 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#24 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#61 IBM now employs more workers in India than US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#85 How do you feel about IBM passing off it's retirees to ObamaCare?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#1 IBM board OK repurchase of another $15B of stock
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#96 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#15 IBM Shrinks - Analysts Hate It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#16 IBM Shrinks - Analysts Hate It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#45 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#48 IBM Dumps Its Server Business On Lenovo For $2.3B
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#79 Shocking news: Execs do what they're paid to do
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#93 Maximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#101 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#24 IBM sells Intel server business, company is doomed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#54 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#55 Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#91 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#75 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#32 upcoming TV show, "Halt & Catch Fire"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#47 Barbarians at the Gate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#48 IBM hopes new chip can turn the tables on Intel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#54 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#69 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#111 The Decline and Fall of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#89 IBM, Lenovo server deal potentially scuppered over security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#69 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#28 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#50 IBM's Ginni Rometty Just Confessed To A Huge Failure -- It Might Be The Best Thing For The Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#51 A View From Beneath the Dancing Elephant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#64 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#8 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#10 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#61 Decimation of the valuation of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#62 Is IBM Suddenly Vulnerable To A Takeover?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#122 Congress could soon allow pension plans to cut benefits for current retirees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#140 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#148 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#162 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#81 Ginni gets bonus, plus raise, and extra incentives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#51 bloomberg article on ASG and Chpater 11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#54 National Security and Double Government
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#58 Neocons Guided Petraeus on Afghan War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#15 Retirement Heist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#16 Retirement Heist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#32 PEU Report: Obama's Intelligence Oversight Board a Corporate Lot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#41 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#63 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#79 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#37 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#70 Encryption "would not have helped" at OPM, says DHS official
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#78 Fed agency blames giant hack on 'neglected' security system
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 12:14:42 -0700Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
last decade in economic mess (70 times larger than S&L crisis which had
30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions with jailtime
... this time *NO* criminal referrals *NOR* convictions) .... too big
to fail were just skimming as the transaction passed through ... they
weren't actually holding the loans. Being able to buy triple-A ratings
from the rating agencies (when sellers and rating agencies knew they
weren't worth triple-A) ... enabling selling to operations (like large
pension funds) that were restricted to only dealing in "safe"
investments ... enabling $27T done 2001-2008
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
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
they found they could further game the system with securitized loans designed to fail, pay for triple-A rating, sell to their customers, and then take out CDS gambling bets they would fail ... which creates enormous demand for bad loans/mortgages.
since then, Federal Reserve has also been providing almost unlimited ZIRP funds.
part of what burst the bubble was investors/buyers starting to realize
that the rating agency ratings might not be trusted. From the law of
unintended side-effects ... was seen in collapse of the muni-bond market
(investors realizing truth of the triple-A rated toxic CDOs, start to
call into question *ALL* rating agency ratings). Buffett stepped in and
started offering muni-bond insurance ... was a way of getting muni-bond
market moving again. some past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#60 Did sub-prime cause the financial mess we are in?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#11 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#29 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#77 Who first mentioned Credit Crunch?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#81 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#17 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#43 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#46 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#30 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#60 In your opinon, what is the highest risk of financial fraud for a corporation ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#2 'Megalomania, Insanity' Fueled Bubble: Munger
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#44 S&P Downgrades USA; Time to Downgrade S&P?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#69 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#54 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#66 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#63 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#68 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#1 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#0 S&L Crisis and Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#24 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#31 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Inaugural Podcast: Dave Farber, Grandfather of the Internet Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:36:59 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
circa 1980, a few people I knew left IBM to do a silicon valley startup building clone 3270 controllers. their competitive selling point would they would offload some of the TSO interactions into the control unit ... attempting to compensate for the horrible TSO human factors (attempting to make TSO slightly more comparable to vm370/cms human factors). The rise of PCs with 3270 terminal emulation tanked their market ... since PC could do a better job with interactive human factors than a clone controller.
One of the people then shows up running the ROLM datacenter. IBM then
acquires ROLM ... folklore is that there was an IBM group out doing M&A
looking for whatever deals they could cut ... and they apparently didn't
even bother to look at ROLM books ... since the quarter the deal closes,
ROLM goes into the red.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROLM
Some number of people then get assigned to ROLM to try and address some of their problems. I'm doing a lot of stuff with T1 and faster links and get asked to look at a problem with ROLM operations. New software is developed and then has to be loaded into switch boxes for testing over 56kbit link ... taking more than 24hrs elapsed time for each test load. I'm go in to have some discussions about possibly upgrading the links to T1 ... reducing test load elapsed time to under an hour.
posts mentioning doing T1 & faster speed links
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
including doing channel extender support for STL lab in 1980
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
and working with NSF and some of the NSF supercomputer centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
ROLM was heavily data general shop ... when IBM buys them, they are asked to move to IBM equipment. The head of ROLM datacenter places an order for something like 500 Series/1.
as part of HSDT, I'm using lot of non-IBM equipment ... and then told that contigent for some IBM HSDT funding was that I would try to use some IBM equipment. IBM had a 2701 controller box from the 60s that supported T1 links ... but was no longer being built. There was a large number of these at gov. installations. To address the "opportunity", Federal Systems Division developed T1 "ZIRPEL" cards for the Series/1 (to replace the gov. 2701 controllers that were falling apart). The FSD "ZIRPEL" cards were the only IBM support ... but it required Series/1 boxes ... which had a year backlog in orders ... because of the big ROLM order. I finally managed to do some horse trading with the person running ROLM datacenter to acquire some S/1 boxes ... in order to demonstrate that I was at least doing T1 with some IBM content.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Inaugural Podcast: Dave Farber, Grandfather of the Internet Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:02:22 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
it was more than decade after series/1 originally introduced and 500 order was incremental unanticipated order (soaking up year of any spare manufacturing capacity).
I've mentioned before that science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
tried to get the company to use the series/1 processor, peachtree, for the 3705 ... rather than the drastically underpowered UC.
shortly after the horse trade with ROLM for some S/1, i got sucked into
trying to put out some S/1 based work as IBM product. One of the
babybells had created a NCP/VTAM (pu4/pu5) emulator on S/1 that had
enormously more function than 37x5. past reference:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#67
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#70
lots of the 37x5 problems were limitation of the UC processor ... the S/1 peachtree processor made it significantly easier to do all the extra function ... but was also starting to run into peachtree processor limitation (including storage addressing, had a bunch of gimmicks to get to even 512kbytes storage). The project was to release S/1-based implementation ... but immediately start porting to IBM RISC ... which eliminated several limitations that was being encountered with the S/1.
We had anticipated that the communication group would respond to the
threat with all sorts of corporate dirty tricks and attempted to
anticipated and plan for them ... but what eventually happened can only
be described as truth is stranger than fiction. other refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#83 Entry point for a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#15 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#43 VNET 1983 1000 NODES
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#82 zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#57 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#58 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#61 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#37 The Subroutine Call
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#52 Bridgestone Sues IBM For $600 Million Over Allegedly 'Defective' System That Plunged The Company Into 'Chaos'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
other past posts mentioning (S/1) ZIRPEL card:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#4 Sv: First video terminal?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#13 COMTEN- IBM networking boxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#28 SR 15,15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#37 network history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#7 Xah Lee's Unixism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#59 Q ALLOC PAGE vs. CP Q ALLOC vs ESAMAP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#25 sorting was: The System/360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#80 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#45 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#63 Early commercial Internet activities (Re: IBM-MAIN longevity)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#4 IBM's Revenge on Sun
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#83 Entry point for a Mainframe?
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/2013g.html#71 DEC and the Bell System?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#37 8080 BASIC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#43 8080 BASIC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#60 Mainframe vs Server - The Debate Continues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#24 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:55:59 -0700hancock4 writes:
current jails/prisons want non-violent ... also younger the better
Jailed for Being Broke
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/jailed-for-being-broke-20150623
But it works out differently in practice. In the era of "Broken Windows"
and community policing, a crime-prevention strategy designed to generate
vast numbers of minor arrests, more and more people are ending up in
jail for what amounts to the crime of not having money.
... snip ...
the for-profit jail/prisons love them since they are very low maintenance and maximize profits (including sending non-violent juveniles to prison
Prison-industrial complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison-industrial_complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison-industrial_complex#History
The signing of the Rockefeller drug laws in May 1973 by New York's
Governor Nelson Rockefeller is considered to be the beginning of the
Prison Industrial Complex. The laws established strict mandatory prison
sentences for the sale or possession of illegal narcotics.[7] Federal
Judge Mark W. Bennett stated that mandatory sentencing destroys families
and perpetuates the cycle of poverty and addiction, with no evidence
that it works.[8]
... snip ...
The Prison-Industrial Complex; Correctional officials see danger in
prison overcrowding. Others see opportunity. The nearly two million
Americans behind bars -- the majority of them nonviolent offenders --
mean jobs for depressed regions and windfalls for profiteers
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/12/the-prison-industrial-complex/304669/
How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking
about; Sen. Marco Rubio is one of the biggest beneficiaries.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/how-for-profit-prisons-have-become-the-biggest-lobby-no-one-is-talking-about/
Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration
https://www.aclu.org/banking-bondage-private-prisons-and-mass-incarceration
Kids for cash scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
The For-Profit Immigration Imprisonment Racket; Private companies with
close ties to government agencies are standing in the way of progress
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-for-profit-immigration-imprisonment-racket-20130222
Prison Industrial Complex
http://www.salon.com/topic/prison_industrial_complex/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Inaugural Podcast: Dave Farber, Grandfather of the Internet Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:08:25 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
quicky search turns up this 8100 reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_8100
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_8100#Architecture
The 8100 was a 32-bit processor, but its instruction set reveals its
lineage as the culmination of a line of so-called Universal Controller
processors[2] internally designated UC0 (8-bit), UC.5 (16-bit) and UC1
(32-bit). Each processor carried along the instruction set and
architecture of the smaller processors, allowing programs written for a
smaller processor to run on a larger one without change.
... snip ...
3705 was 16bit uc.5 and had much less functionaility than the s1 peachtree processor.
past posting of old email referencing MIT LISP machine group wanting
801/RISC processor from IBM ... and Evans offering them 8100 instead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#email790711
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#email790711
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#email790711
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#email790711
old folklore postings about Bob Evans asking my wife to review 8100 and she
turned in negative evaluation:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#53 MVS History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#65 801 (was Re: Reviving Multics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#46 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#55 Is computer history taught now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#22 CLIs and GUIs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#0 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#31 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#28 Supervisory Processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#66 Migration off mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#66 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#82 zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#57 Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#32 model numbers; was re: World's worst programming environment?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#20 IBM 8150?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#71 Remembrance of things past
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: These hackers warned the Internet would become a security disaster. Nobody listened Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:18:22 -0700These hackers warned the Internet would become a security disaster. Nobody listened
IBM had a pentagon papers type event when a copy of document with
details of unannounced 370 virtual memory makes into the hands of
industry publication. Aftermath of the investigation ... all internal
IBM copier machines had (unique) serial number under the glass plate
so it shows up on all copies made on that machine ... shows up on this
document copied nearly 15yrs later ("IBM-SJ-086")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/grayft84.pdf
also
https://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/TandemTR86.2_FaultToleranceInTandemComputerSystems.pdf
Then during the future system effort in the early 70s, some past refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
an attempt was to make all the documents available only in softcopy (to further inhibit copying). Online system was modified so to access documents, had to use special process that only allowed displaying documents on local, hardwired 3277 terminals (and all other functions were crippled). I had some dedicated weekend time in datacenter with one such system. I went in Friday afternoon to make sure everything was setup and ready. While there, some of the people wanted to brag that even if I was left alone in the machine room all weekend, their modified system would preclude (even) me from accessing the information.
Unable to resist, I replied it would take less than five minutes ... most of the time was spent isolating the machine so that nobody else could take advantage of what I was about to do. From the front console, I did a one byte patch of a branch condition instruction in the authentication routine such that *ALL* authentication requests returned valid. I then commented that the only really good countermeasure would involve encrypting the information.
for the fun of it ... some old crypto related email ... including
discussion of (public key) PGP-like implementation, a decade before
PGP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#crypto
long ago and far away, we were brought in as consultants to small
client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their
server, they had also invented this technology called "SSL" they
wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic
commerce". We did design/implementation using "SSL" for the electronic
commerce webservers to the payment gateway (handled transactions
between the internet and the payment networks) ... and I know of no
exploits of that implementation.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
However, we only could make recommendations about the client to server operation, many of which were almost immediately violated, accounting for many of the exploits that continue to this day.
Somewhat because of having done "electronic commerce", in the mid-90s
we were invited to participate in the x9a10 financial standards
working group that had been given the requirement to preserve the
integrity of the financial infrastructure for *ALL* retail
payments (not limited to internet, aka *ALL*). We did some detailed
end-to-end threat and vulnerability studies that led to the x9.59
transaction standard.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
One of the issues was that transaction information is used in dozens of business processes at millions of locations all over the world. One of the threats is attackers obtaining/skimming transaction information and using the information for fraudulent transactions. Because the enormous number of requirements for access to the transaction information, we've commented that even if the world was buried under miles of information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't stop information leakage ... aka an enormous "attack surface" (millions of places where attacks can happen). The x9a10 standard did nothing to reduce the "attack surface", but it did reduce the "threat surface" by slight tweak to the current infrastructure that made information from previous transactions (including account nos) useless to crooks for doing fraudulent transactions. This also eliminated the need to hide/encrypt transactions, which has been the major use of "SSL" in the world.
Note that about the same time we were invited to participate in the
x9a10 financial standard working group, there were presentations at
financial industry conferences by consumer dial-up banking operations
and the motivation for their move to the internet (offload their
significant consumer support costs for proprietary dial-up operations
to ISPs). At the same time, there were presentations by cash
management/commercial dial-up banking operations that they would
*NEVER* move to the internet because of a long list of vulnerabilities
(that mostly continue to this day). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#dialup-banking
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 23:09:21 -0700"A Bad Man's Guide to Private Equity and Pensions"
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
recent posts mentioning pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#4 "Trust in digital certificate ecosystem eroding"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#5 7 years on from crisis, $150 billion in bank fines and penalties
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#18 Can we design machines to automate ethics?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#20 Wall Street Bailouts Are Finally Over, Right?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#28 Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#63 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#69 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#79 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#34 43rd President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#37 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#39 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#40 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#43 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#64 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#70 Encryption "would not have helped" at OPM, says DHS official
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#71 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#75 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#78 Fed agency blames giant hack on 'neglected' security system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#80 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#81 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#82 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:17:02 -0700"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
it did say it was analysis of (recent) partial data from PBGC and that 102,000 employees of the 51 companies dumped on PBGC at the behest of private equity firms, lost "at least" $128million (they may have yet to see the full data of original pension obligation compared to what they are going to get from PBGC, as well as what the private equity firms have gained by dumping the employees on PBGC).
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: These hackers warned the Internet would become a security disaster. Nobody listened Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 12:51:46 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
the original mainframe tcp/ip product was done in vs/pascal ... and had none of the exploits that have been epidemic in c-language implementations (because of buffer length related programming errors). It did have some performance issues getting about 44kbytes/sec using 3090 processor. I did the enhancements for rfc1044 and in some tuning tests at cray research got channel (1mbyte/sec) sustained throughput between 4341 and cray ... using only modest amount of the 4341 processor (possibly 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed).
during the 90s, c-language buffer length related programming errors
accounted for the majority of internet exploits. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
at the '96 Moscone MSDC all the banners said "internet" but the constant refrain in all the sessions was "protect your investment". Networking support & applications from the 80s and early 90s (safe, small, closed business lans) were being expanded to support (wild open anarchy of) the internet (but w/o any addition of security measures or attack countermeasures). Going into this century, C-language related exploits drops as percentage of all exploits ... not because their numbers decreased, but because there was enormous increase in exploits related to application paradigm from the safe, small closed business LANs from the 80s.
I was trying to enhance my security taxonomy using CVE exploit
information. I talked to the CVE people about improving use of
keywords in CVE reports ... at the time their reply was that they felt
lucky to get any kind of reports at all and were concerned that trying
to introduce structure in the reports would inhibit people doing
reporting. At a result I had to resort some simple word and multiple
word occurrences in free text. old post of some of the analysis.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#43
post referencing NIST report in 2005 that came up with similar results
as my 2004 CVE analysis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#20
one of the buffer attacks is including executable instructions as part
of incoming data and then hack that results in processing transfers to
those instructions. A hardware countermeasure was introduced that can
flag storage areas as non-executable (inverse of UNIX "X" executable
status). past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#3 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#32 8086 memory space [was: The Soul of Barb's New Machine]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#30 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#58 Q ALLOC PAGE vs. CP Q ALLOC vs ESAMAP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#57 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Fed agency blames giant hack on 'neglected' security system Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 13:45:28 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
OPM Contractor's Parent Firm Has a Troubled History
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
Founded in 1992 by the late investment banker Robert McKeon, Veritas
Capital grew quickly by buying up government contractors and forming
close ties with former senior government officials. Of the many
defense-related investments made by the company, the most famous has
been the 2005 purchase of DynCorp International, a scandal-plagued
company that played a pivotal role in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
... snip ...
private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:29:48 -0700re:
Why Isn't More Happening to Reduce America's Bloated Prison Population
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-more-happening-to-reduce-americas-bloated-prison-population-20150624
The imperative for criminal-justice reform is aching and obvious: In the
past 40 years, the U.S. prison population rose 500 percent. The drug war
has been the biggest driver: There are more people locked up today for
drug offenses alone than the entire prison system held in 1970.
...
The U.S. has less than five percent of the world's population, but
nearly a quarter of its prisoners.
... snip ...
note what doesn't show up here are the too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail) that have been caught "money laundering" for drug cartels (and terrorists) ... in fact I first started seeing reference too big to jail in articles about too big to fail caught "money laundering" for drug cartels and it playing the major factor in the militarization of the drug cartels ... able to purchase high-end military equipment ... and upswing in violance on both sides of the border (some reference that too big to fail were turning mexico into another colombia).
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
"money laundering"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
partially related
Obama Won't Demilitarize Police
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/obama-wont-demilitarize-police/
older news implying that he might
Obama preparing executive order on police militarization
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/01/politics/obama-police-militarization/
Obama: U.S. Cracking Down on 'Militarization' of Local Police
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-cracking-down-militarization-local-police-n360381
Obama's Anti-Police Militarization Measure is a Disaster in Disguise
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obamas-anti-police-militarization-measure-is-a-disaster-in-disguise/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:21:02 -0700Shelter consumer price index
The Mystery Of The "Missing" Inflation Solved: Record Number Of US
Renters Can't Afford Housing
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-24/mystery-missing-inflation-solved-record-number-us-renters-cant-afford-housing
Of course, by now everyone knows that the artificially suppressed,
"hedonically-modified" and seasonally-adjusted inflationary readings is
what has permitted the Fed to not only grow its balance sheet to $4.5
trillion but to keep rates at 0% for 8 years. Because "how will the
economy recover if there is no broad inflation", the Keynesian brains in
the ivory tower scream, demanding more, more, more easing just to push
inflation higher.
... snip ...
over $27T toxic CDOs done 2001-2008
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
however, just the four largest too big to fail were still
holding $5.2T in triple-A rated toxic CDOs "off-book" that they
hadn't unloaded on unsuspecting victims before the bottom fell out.
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
original the appropriated $700B in TARP funds were supposedly to buy
these toxic assets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
but with only $700B it couldn't address the problem ... so they found other uses for it ... sec. of treasury forced AIG to take the largest amount so that AIG would pay off CDS gambling bits at face value (instead of 50cents on the dollar) ... and the largest recipient of face value pay offs was company formally headed by the sec. of treasury. There was drawn out legal battle trying to prevent that information being made public.
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#41
Note that TBTF fines & fees are claimed to have hit $300B so far (but nobody doing jailtime). However when it became apparent that the $700B TARP funds couldn't address the problem (just four largest TBTF with $5.2T), Federal Reserve started buying offbook triple-A rated toxic CDOs at 98cents on the dollar (late summer 2008 had been going for 22cents on the dollar). Federal Reserve also started providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds (federal reserve fought long drawn out legal battle trying to prevent releasing to public details of what it was doing).
Claim is that TBTF are making $300B/year off ZIRP funds, which more than offsets the total fines and fees so far ... not to mention what they pocketed during the economic mess. Some claim that redirecting the "mortgage market" through wallstreet during the economic mess, resulted in wallstreet tripling in size (as percent of GDP) during last decade. They were possibly able to skim $3T-$5T off the $27+T passing thru wallstreet 2001-2008.
However, the $300B in fines&fees so far isn't just for their illegal activity in the mortgage market (including designing triple-A rated toxic CDOs to fail and then taking out CDS gambling bets that they would fail, robo-signing mills, etc) ... but also includes other illegal activity, manipulating LIBOR, manipulating Foreign Exchange market, manipulating commodities market, money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists, role in large scale client tax evasion, etc. ... which accounts for reports that they are viewing the fines&fees as just cost of doing (illegal) business (since it is such a small percentage of their total take).
LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:12:35 -0700recent on british empire retained a few locations that city of london used to operate its schemes
Caymans Exposed: Tax Havens Lucrative for Big Finance, Leave Only Crumbs
for Locals
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/caymans-exposed-tax-havens-lucrative-for-big-finance-leave-only-crumbs-for-locals.html
This goes into a lot more detail
https://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Islands-Uncovering-Offshore-Banking-ebook/dp/B004OA6420/
tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax havens, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:09:46 -0700mortgage bankers association worked with the FBI to carefully restrict the definition of "mortgage fraud" to acts performed by borrowers and not have any reference to the trillions in fraud done by lenders and wallstreet.
I attended some standards meetings hosted by the mortgage bankers association (they had a new hdqtrs bldg across the park in DC from IMF and world bank) having to do with electronic documents ... some of it they may have tried to use in conjunction with MERS and that part of the mortgage fraud activity ... which plays later with the robo-signing mills fabricating documents for foreclosures.
Later CBS had news segment on mortgage bankers association sending out all sort of press releases advising borrowers not to walk away from their mortgages ... and trying to track down the head of the mortgage bankers association to ask him why the organization walked way from the mortgage on their new hdqtrs bldg in DC.
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
MERS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_Electronic_Registration_Systems
#1 on times list of those responsible ... where an enormous number of
fraudulent loans originated:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-20/countrywide-s-mozilo-said-to-face-u-s-suit-over-loans.html
and
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html
robo-signing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_foreclosure_crisis
some of the too big to fail were then fined tens of billions that was
supposed to be used to aid victims of the illegal foreclosures. However
very little actually was seen by the victims, much of it disappeared
into organizations that were formed to administer the funds (some with
very little experience in mortgages and foreclosures, but had recently
been formed by former heads of federal gov. financial regulatory
operations). some old posts on the subject
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#36 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#47 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#6 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#43 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#77 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#42 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#12 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#24 What Makes a substance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#52 What Makes a substance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#50 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#17 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#16 weird apple trivia
whislteblower
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:20:33 -0700"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
they made references that tax accountants/preparers and country of ireland were major lobbying opposing flat tax. Also made semi-humerous reference that the massive graft and corruption is so financially beneficial to members of congress ... even if they did move to flat tax, congress would invent some other method for graft and corruption.
also claim that the current tax paradigm (besides contributing to enormous corruption, lobbying/bribing congress) costs the country something like 6% of GDP ... approx 3% direct in overhead dealing with tax code and approx 3% indirect because tax code have businesses making non-optimal decisions.
"tax evasion", "tax avoidance", "tax havens"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
2002 congress had let the fiscal responsibility act expire (spending
couldn't exceed tax ravenue). 2010 CBO report was that tax collection
was reduced by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T budget gap
(compared to fiscal responsibility baseline budget).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
there have also been observations that congress increased their
corruption sophistication last decade .... the tax loop-holes they are
selling are increasingly temporary that have to be renewed on regular
basis and they get a lot more money if there is the fiction of opposing
factions in congress ... part of the periodic press references to
congress as kabuki theater ... what is seen publicly has little to do
with what is really going on
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
the corporate interests wanted the tax loopholes that went with the
massive reduction in tax revenue ... but they also wanted the revenue
that went along with the massive increase in spending for appropriations
that went to for-profit companies associated with gov. outsourcing,
militiary-industrial complex and beltway bandits.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
however, there is also reports that many interests on wallstreet want
the massive deficits (separate from what is made off the massive
loopholes and massive increase in spending). The fiscal responsible
baseline budget had all federal debt gone by 2010. The current scenario
has the federal government paying almost half trillion in interest. The
too big to fail are getting ZIRP funds from the Federal Reserve which
they turn around and buy treasuries.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
In theory, the Federal Reserve could use ZIRP funds to buy treasuries directly at zero precent interest (and federal debt would cost nothing) ... but the current scheme means that the too big to fail can (also) get the majority of the interest being paid on federal dabt,
The federal reserve had lengthy legal battle trying to prevent public
disclosure of what they were doing (buying trillions in toxic assets at
98cents on the dollar and providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds).
The chairman of the federal reserve then said that he had believed when
he made ZIRP funds available to too big to fail, they would turn
around and lend to mainstreet ... but when they didn't, he had no way of
forcing them (but also didn't cut off the flow of ZIRP funds). Note the
chairman supposedly had been selected in part because he was a scholar
of the Great Depression ... however in the Great Depression, the federal
reserve had tried the exact same thing ... and the banks had responded
in the same exact way (there was no reason to believe they had changed).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
recent posts mentioning ZIRP funds:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#28 Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#69 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#70 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#41 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#43 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#44 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#82 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#93 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:27:10 -0700hancock4 writes:
Since then there have been news reports about billions in fines on the
too big to fail assisting in the tax evasion schemes ... but nothing
about the 52,000 wealthy americans or the $400B in the taxes they owed.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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