Re: Has there been in-the-wild i Series virus?

Having created many NCP programs I can tell you if SNA would have won in
the corporate world:
*the networks would be nearly impenetrable
*it would be nearly impossible to have you phone or other devices attach to
the corporate network
*Users would hate it

SNA was a far superior network but it lost to simplicity. With simplicity
comes the ability to exploit it. Just as any 100Mb token ring would crush
most Ethernet networks it lost to ease of use and cost.

That said a properly secured IBM i instance is far better than any windows
(even properly secured) system.



On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:09 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Jack,

Am 25.03.2020 um 16:14 schrieb Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

:

The IBM i community is, in general, IMHO, about 20 years behind in

grasping the technical details of how the Bad Guys work over TCP/IP.

Thanks for speaking out loud what was my guessing from what I learned
until today.

The world might be a safer place if SNA had won in the marketplace, but

that's another story.

If SNA was as ubiquitous as IP today, a) the world would be a lot
different like we are used to and b) the bad guys would exploit SNA as
transport for their misbehave.

Imagine smartphones where you need to create controller descriptions for
your mobile data provider, and device descriptions for every web server. :-D

:wq! PoC

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