Re: Here is a real reality check for every PC user...

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The strongest argument to my mind is the empirical evidence.  How may 
iSeries have been made inoperable because of a vandal from the outside 
World?  Is it more than a dozen?

Joe Pluta wrote:
> I understand your point, Vern, but do you see the difference?  Heck, if I'm
> a programmer on ANY box, I can hang the system in a matter of seconds.  In a
> Unix machine, it's something like "rm /", on an iSeries, it's DLTLIB QSYS.
> While I don't like the fact that you can hang the machine with a bad API
> call, that's a far cry from someone hanging the machine with just TCP/IP
> access and no passwords (much less, as you point out, taking control of the
> machine).
>
> This is a really important point, folks.  The iSeries is much, much, much,
> much more secure than just about any machine out there.  This is not
> opinion, not hype, it's plain fact.  Anybody who tells you different is
> smoking carpet fibers.
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> > From: vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Hey, Joe
> >
> > I don't know what is involved, but it is said that if you do not pass the
> > so-called "omissible" parameter to the CEE* APIs, a machine lock-up is
> > possible. The docs says that if you "omit" the parameter, you must pass a
> > null pointer. (This does not seem like the meaning of "omit", but what do
> > I know?)
> >
> > This is not something I found at IBM, I believe I was told this by a
> > support person.
> >
> > But this does give anyone "control of the computer", it causes a hang.
> >
> > I do not believe this is FUD.