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Re: University credentials used by third parties
From: Paul Kendall <PKendall () ACCUDATASYSTEMS COM>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:59:01 -0500
I used to hear it about the Big 8: Arthur Andersen - Snow White Seven Dwarves: Price Waterhouse Coopers & Lybrand Arthur Young Ernst & Whinney Deloitte, Haskins, and Sells Touche Ross Peat, Marwick, Mitchell The scary thing is I can remember all the names. I worked for Andersen in the early 80s after competing graduate school. One of the British partners at the time, who was leaving to go back to academia, told me the following: "We hire all these college graduates with no real world experience. The really good ones are snapped up by our clients. The really bad ones we get rid of. The really mediocre ones...they make Partner." Paul ======================================== Paul L. Kendall, CGEIT, CHP, CHSS, CHS-III, DHS-CVI, CISM, CISSP, CSSLP PCI Qualified Security Assessor Senior Consultant Accudata Systems, Inc. From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Kieper, David Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 2:43 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] University credentials used by third parties Anyone one remember the "snow white and the seven dwarfs" in reference to computer companies back in the 60's and 70's: In the late 60's, IBM was snow white, and seven dwarfs were Burroughs, NCR, Univac, Honeywell, Control Data Corporation, RCA, and GE. Later "dwarfs" were Xerox and DEC in the 70's. Wang came after that... I still have a 8 Kbit core stack module from a GE system as well as core memories and a few cpu modules from Xerox Sigma systems. Xerox Sigma front panel (full of switches and lights) was just too big to keep around, so that went in the junk years ago. Still bring it out the old stuff for the "younger" staff to see what it was like in the 70's. Ah yes, the good old days when a cpu was a few hundred 6" x 8" modules, in three large cabinets with miles of wire wrapped backplanes, IC can transistors for high speed registers, and (later) basic IC logic gates on sixteen pin chips. Troubleshooting tools were an oscilloscope, rubber mallet or vibration tool, wire wrap tool, and a soldering gun/soldapult. For every problem you were trying to fix, you created and resolved at least one other. System gave off enough RF interference that you could tell if a diagnostic was failing by turning on a radio to just about any frequency and listening for changes in the static noise (that also drowned out most radio station signals within 20 feet of it). Regards, David Kieper Manager, Network and Infrastructure Services Information Technology Security Officer Information Services Division University of Wisconsin - Green Bay office: (920) 465-2238 2420 Nicolet Drive fax: (920) 465-2864 Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 USA email: kieperd () uwgb edu<mailto:kieperd () uwgb edu>
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- Re: Memories - was (University credentials used by thirdparties) Guy Pace (Aug 23)
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- Re: Memories - was (University credentials used by thirdparties) Mike Porter (Aug 24)
- Re: Memories - was (University credentials used by thirdparties) Pete Hickey (Aug 24)
- Re: Memories - was (University credentials used by thirdparties) Mike Porter (Aug 24)
- Re: Memories - was (University credentials used by thirdparties) Joel Rosenblatt (Aug 24)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties B Kaye (Aug 21)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Nate johnson (Aug 20)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Kieper, David (Aug 20)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Semmens, Theresa (Aug 20)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Paul Kendall (Aug 20)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Ozzie Paez (Aug 20)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Flynn, Gary - flynngn (Aug 20)
- Re: Memories (was University credentials used by third parties) David L. Wasley (Aug 20)
- Re: Memories (was University credentials used by third parties) Kieper, David (Aug 20)
- Re: Memories (was University credentials used by third parties) David L. Wasley (Aug 20)
- Re: Memories (was University credentials used by third parties) Morrow Long (Aug 20)
- Re: Memories (was University credentials used by third parties) Mike Iglesias (Aug 20)
- Re: Memories (was University credentials used by third parties) Joel Rosenblatt (Aug 20)
- Re: Memories (was University credentials used by third parties) Valdis Kletnieks (Aug 20)
- Re: Memories (was University credentials used by third parties) Nate johnson (Aug 20)