Re: University credentials used by third parties

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

That reminded me of the days of using "tape developer" (very fine ground up iron powder in a alcohol solution) to find errors on 9 track tapes .. talk about 
tedious :-)

Joel

--On Monday, August 23, 2010 11:33 AM -0400 Pete Hickey <pete () SHADOWS UOTTAWA CA> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 05:40:09PM -0600, Ozzie Paez wrote:
>
>
> > .....  I actually kept several racks of Cisco firewalls, switches and
> > routers just so that I could show them to some of the newer guys that came
> > up after this type of equipment shrunk down to the size of a Kleenex box. o
>
> I have a couple of IBM 2314 disk packs in my shed... waiting for some
> grandchildren to show them to.
>
> And... in keeping with the mandate of this group.... I'd bet anything
> that they were never cleaned and still have their data on them.
>
> Anyone have something that reads them (fater than iron and a microscope)
>
>
>
> --
> Pete Hickey
> The University of Ottawa           A picture is worth a thousand words
> Ottawa, Ontario                      but takes up more disk space.
> Canada



Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel