> 2009/12/11 Kevin Oberman <[email protected]>: > >> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:49:42 +0000 > >> From: Matthew Seaman <[email protected]> > >> Sender: [email protected] > >> > >> Polytropon wrote: > >> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, "Sam Fourman Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I have tried looking around and OpenBSD appears to be the undisputed > >> >> #1 track record in terms of security and FreeBSD is #2 (I didn't > >> >> count dragonflyBSD) > >> > > >> > VMS would be #0, then? :-) > >> > >> I dunno. Haven't seen many MS-DOS exploits recently either... > > > > I'm sure that there are systems happily running MSDOS, but I bet not too > > many are networked. > > > > I know that there is still a lot of VMS out there and that it has > > remained a cash cow for HP. It lived on primarily in the banking and > > financial sector, though I guess the use is dropping since HP recently > > outsourced support to India and that lead to the retirement of the last > > of the original VMS developers, Andy Goldstein. > > > > Also, the the end of TECO as Andy was responsible for porting it to > > almost every platform DEC ever sold (RSX, RSTS, VMS, TOPS-10 and > > TOPS-20, RT-11, and several others) and continued to maintain it until > > his retirement. (Most readers of this list probably don't even remember > > TECO.) > > > > And, for may years VMS had major network security problems, especially > > the infamous default DECNET/DECNET account that lead to may compromises > > and the second major network worm, Worms Against Nuclear Killers. (I > > won't use the acronym so as not to offend our British readers. I found > > out about that when the BBC interviewed me about it and I was told that > > I could not utter the word.) > > Wow, I didn't know your side don't use that word... I thought I knew > about all the stereotypically British ones! > > Do you guys have any curses or insults at all??? > > Chris > I ran a radio show in the states - the language restrictions there woooooooooooow were they strict!!
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