9 Dec
2005
9 Dec
'05
4:45 p.m.
Well... after VMS 3 it started to have good security out of the box...
I think 5.5-4 was one of the better and more secure versions...
Curt
Allison wrote:
Subject: Re: A
Hobbyist DECnet Network
From: der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 03:00:23 -0500 (EST)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
There's a story of a VAX at DEFCON that was subjected to the hordes
and stood well. VMS has good security out of the box, always did.
It can be made very tight without much effort and it's also so different
from PCs (Hardend OS and protection in hardware) so security by obscurity
doesn't hurt.
Allison
Probably there just aren't many hackers out
there who know enough
about DECnet to worry about,
I suspect there are actually plenty of them - several are probably on
this very list - but most (verging on all, would be my guess) are
honest enough to be no problem.