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> There's a whole world of solid, reliable, but unbelievably boring "institutional computing" out there that hackers usually don't touch because it's... well...

> There's a whole world of solid, reliable, but unbelievably boring "institutional computing" out there that hackers usually don't touch because it's... well... boring. I can imagine if the salaries would be sufficiently (i.e. very) high and the complete culture would not be openly hostile towards the values of the hacker culture, I can easily imagine that hackers would be willing to touch it.

rayiner 8y ago
But would you want hackers to touch it?
tony-allan 8y ago
(1) These systems were built from the ground up with security in mind. (2) Mainframes are usually buried deep within an organisation behind many firewalls. I would love to see a z/OS system at a Defcon conference. After all Windows and MacOS seem too easy these days. Having said that, I found this... "Follow me on a journey where we p0wn one of the most secure platforms on earth." Quite a cool presentation (https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20presentations/DEFCON-25-Ayoul3-Dealing-the-Perfect-Hand-Shuffling-memory-blocks-on-zOS.pdf https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20pre...) with a good mainframe intro. IBM zEC13 technical specs: • 10 TB of RAM • 141 processors,5 GHz • Dedicated processors for JAVA, XML and UNIX • Cryptographic chips...