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Re:The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security by manigandham on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:19PM (#17961593)
Why does the accounts system have to use that mainframe?
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Re:The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security by jedberg on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:39PM (#17962204)
In most cases it's because the mainframe holds all the customer data and is the system of record, and it's just easier to do it that way.
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