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What does the author mean" 'once used' by banks? It's used by very many banks, or is that the iSeries? ******************** Edith Lueke User-Centered Design Team, iSeries http://w3.rchland.ibm.com/~lueke email: lueke@us.ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/ucd 507-253-4908 Tie: 8-553-4908 midrange-nontech-request@m idrange.com To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com Sent by: cc: midrange-nontech-admin@mid Subject: Midrange-NonTech digest, Vol 1 #292 - 2 msgs range.com 09/25/2002 12:00 PM Please respond to midrange-nontech Send Midrange-NonTech mailing list submissions to midrange-nontech@midrange.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-nontech or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to midrange-nontech-request@midrange.com You can reach the person managing the list at midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Midrange-NonTech digest..." Today's Topics: 1. The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc. (Leif Svalgaard) 2. RE: The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc. (Chuck Lewis) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org> To: "Midrange List Non-tech" <midrange-nontech@midrange.com> Subject: The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc. Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:20:17 -0500 Reply-To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,41206,00.html The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc. Colombian cartels have spent billions of dollars to build one of the world's most sophisticated IT infrastructures. It's helping them smuggle more dope than ever before. On a rainy night eight years ago in the Colombian city of Cali, crack counter-narcotics troops swarmed over the first floor of a low-rise condominium complex in an upscale neighborhood. They found no drugs or guns. But what they did find sent shudders through law enforcement and intelligence circles around the world. The building was owned by a front man for Cali cocaine cartel leader Jos=E9 Santacruz Londono. Inside was a computer center, manned in shifts around the clock by four to six technicians. The central feature of the facility was a $1.5 million IBM AS400 mainframe, the kind once used by banks, networked with half a dozen terminals and monitors. The next day, Colombia's attorney general secretly granted permission for U.S. agents to fly the mainframe immediately back to the United States, where it was subjected to an exhaustive analysis by experts from the Drug Enforcement Administration and various intelligence agencies. The so-called Santacruz computer was never returned to Colombian authorities, and the DEA's report about it is highly classified. But Business 2.0 has ferreted out many of its details. They make it clear why the U.S. government wants the Santacruz case kept quiet. --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@iquest.net> To: <midrange-nontech@midrange.com> Subject: RE: The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc. Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:13:22 -0500 Reply-To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com Leif, I was still getting (might still be, behind on the ole mail <BG>) Business 2=2E0 when that came out - pretty wild, eh ? :-) Not to glamorous the drug trade, but they were doing some AMAZING data mining, etc. Guess that goes to show how good IT can be with unlimited funding :-) Chuck -----Original Message----- From: midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Leif Svalgaard Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 7:20 PM To: Midrange List Non-tech Subject: The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc. http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,41206,00.html The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc. Colombian cartels have spent billions of dollars to build one of the world's most sophisticated IT infrastructures. It's helping them smuggle more dope than ever before. On a rainy night eight years ago in the Colombian city of Cali, crack counter-narcotics troops swarmed over the first floor of a low-rise condominium complex in an upscale neighborhood. They found no drugs or guns. But what they did find sent shudders through law enforcement and intelligence circles around the world. The building was owned by a front man for Cali cocaine cartel leader Jos=E9 Santacruz Londono. Inside was a computer center, manned in shifts around the clock by four to six technicians. The central feature of the facility was a $1.5 million IBM AS400 mainframe, the kind once used by banks, networked with half a dozen terminals and monitors. The next day, Colombia's attorney general secretly granted permission for U.S. agents to fly the mainframe immediately back to the United States, where it was subjected to an exhaustive analysis by experts from the Drug Enforcement Administration and various intelligence agencies. The so-called Santacruz computer was never returned to Colombian authorities, and the DEA's report about it is highly classified. But Business 2.0 has ferreted out many of its details. They make it clear why the U.S. government wants the Santacruz case kept quiet. _______________________________________________ This is the Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries (Midrange-NonTech) mailing list To post a message email: Midrange-NonTech@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-nontech or email: Midrange-NonTech-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech. --__--__-- _______________________________________________ This is the Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries (Midrange-NonTech) digest list To post a message email: Midrange-NonTech@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-nontech or email: Midrange-NonTech-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech. 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