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> From:
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> Behalf Of William McMillan
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 18:04
> To:
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> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] computer security history
>
> Jon, et al.
>
> There might be some value in looking into the history of Multics, the
> IBM System/360, and DEC VAX/VMS. These were systems built from the
> ground up with security in mind, even at the hardware level for
> address-space protection.
>
> I'm sure there are other good cases, but these come to mind.
>
> I believe that Peter J. Denning's work on operating systems would also
> be related.
>
> We had a mainframe guy from Compuware come in recently to talk to
> students about current mainframes, which amount almost totally to the
> IBM z Systems, descendants of the 360/370. When someone asked about
> security, he said forget about it. No one's ever hacked a z System.
>
> There's this whole, heavy-duty, bullet-proof world of hyper-secure
> systems, and then the swamps and tangles most of us live in that
> evolved from Unix, MS-DOS, the 8086, the Mac OS and other jury-rigged
> OSs and hardware architectures.
>
> - Bill
>
> On 3/11/12, Jon Lindsay <
jrlindsay@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I have the feeling that the history of computer security, from hacking
>> techniques to the evolution of the information security industry to
>> fearmongering over cybersecurity, is a somewhat understudied area. I have
>> seen some work on the development of government policy and threat framing
>> (i.e., by Myriam Dunn Cavelty) but I'm less aware of anything on the
>> evolution of the technical and industrial dark arts. If there is some
good
>> work out there, I would love to see it.
>> Bonus points if you can tell me when the awful phrase "digital pearl
>> harbor" first appeared!
>> Cheers,
>> Jon
>>