Posts by NeedBongos

Seagate's lightbulb moment: Make read-write heads operate independently

Re: Old tech solved this decades ago

IBM 3380 had 2 read/write actuators per drive, needed them to make S/38s go.

First UK deliveries were in 1982.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives#IBM_3380

New Capita system has left British Army recruits unable to register online

Business Bullshit

Another example of the Business Bullshit economy that has developed.

Andre Spicer has shown how it has grown over the recent decades. ISBN10 1138911674

AI smarts: IBM pushes out 'faster than X86' POWER9 servers

Re: POWER to the people!

Good points made. Lost count of the time spent convincing people of the risks of the default FTP server config, and enterprise vendors who insisted all their app users had to be members of QPGMR.

I agree it's "not that different" in that it all needs careful configuration, but doesn't the architecture offer fewer attack vectors? Hence the "never been hacked" claims.

Am I right in thinking that the current "fileless" exploits (pushing a replacement *OBJ into main storage without detection) haven't been done on a correctly configured IBM i?