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Re: Fwd: How to Steal a Mainframe
From: igenge2 () csc com au
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:27:24 +0800
passed through these servers. What gets me is only 2 servers were
stolen and yet
they were in there 2 hours "unhooking the computers" so it was said.
Doesnt
take that long just to "unhook".Umm... We're not talking about a 5U-high Netfinity, probably. We once
had
occasion to move an IBM 9672 (which is as near as I can tell the same
size/
class machine) across the machine room, and it was a long morning's
work. Even
a *small* S/390 or z-series system can have 48 channel cables on it,
128 is not
at all uncommon - and IBM uses some pretty hefty screws to hold them in
place.
They put them on small trolleys and wheeled them out the door and took
off with them. One seriously doubts they >were anything more than high towers. It would be nice to know what they really were. If they took mainframes then the thieves would only have the data stored in RAM at the time (if they are using battery backed RAM) but not the data stored on the disks, because they are usually separate (on the other end of the channel cables). On the other hand they could have taken the disks themselves, or they could have been *NIX servers or Windows Servers or ... The trouble with relying on press reports is that we just don't get enough information to make reliable comments. Ian Genge __________________________________________________ Senior Network Engineer CSC _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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