RE: iSeries passwords

[<jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If you were captured with a fake sign-on screen, which captured your
> password, and then ended that job, and made you think that you had keyed
> a bad password, when you signed on and saw no invalid password attempts,
> you know that you were duped!

I remember THAT particular piece of malware from high school (where we
were hooked up to a 370/135 running an OS called MUSIC [McGill University
System for Interactive Computing]). We called it an "FCRAPS" program,
after the name of the first one written (presumably so named in order to
suggest that it was a dice game from Fountain Valley HS).

Nasty. And likely to get one kicked out of class.

Then there was the "JOKE" program. Three lines of Fortran IV code:
      CALL SIGNOF
      CALL EXIT
      END
If you found somebody who walked away from a terminal without signing off,
and set his or her autoprog to a file with these three lines in it, that
person would be unable to sign on, because the system would be able to
compile, link, and run it before there was time to stop it.

Then there were the interactive games that took so much CPU time that
nobody could get any useful work done.

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JHHL