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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: System reincarnation is bad security (was Performance & Diagnosis ...)
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Date: 14 Aug 89 20:17:36 GMT
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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]