Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca!frip!andrew From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: System reincarnation is bad security (was Performance & Diagnosis ...) Message-ID: <4222@orca.WV.TEK.COM> Date: 14 Aug 89 20:17:36 GMT References: <559@halley.UUCP> <5818@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1989Aug11.165805.24782@sli.com> Sender: nobody@orca.WV.TEK.COM Distribution: comp Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 16 Robert D. Houk (rdh@sli.com) writes about an episode in which he brought a timesharing system back from the dead by adroit manipulation of the front-panel switches: "No user lost any data (except terminal typein of course - not a single typeout character was lost, no disk files lost or corrupted, only a 3-minute pause in service was noticed)." An operator once used a similar technique to bring back a KA-10 when I was in school. Unfortunately, when we saw that terminal echo was gone, we'd all left for dinner. The system came back, I was again logged in, and some dweeb chose to demonstrate his power over me by deleting all my files and leaving a nastygram. -=- Andrew Klossner (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]