[Info-vax] Disk image viewable in Windows/Linux

[Forster, Michael]

Why the secrecy? What's the class/school/seminar?

What's your financial interest?

Thank you!

On Aug 7, 2011, at 5:30 PM, "Sum1" <not at here.com> wrote:

> On 2011-08-07 00:54:33 +0000, MG said:
> 
>> On 7-8-2011 2:17, Sum1 wrote:
>>> To perhaps assuage the general interest of contributors, I am creating
>>> disk images (dd in many cases) for students to investigate the storage
>>> functions of different file systems and how they can be
>>> investigated/examined in a forensically-sound manner.
>> 
>> Are you going to be training the next generation of thought police?
>> 
>>  - MG
> 
> :)
> 
> No, but I am doing my absolute best to keep VMS on the radar for people 
> who are about to move into decision-making positions for technology and 
> who don't know that VMS exists.  And why do I do this?
> 
> Simple cost/benefit equation:  If financial/organisational risk is 
> quantified in $, political impact and time lost AND security is 
> important AND the desired environment/backend *can* run on VMS, then it 
> should be evaluated and understood as the additional cost *may* be 
> offset by the reduction in risk to financial/organisational risk.
> 
> Also, some of these people work in environments where, from time to 
> time, they come across VMS environments but have no idea of how they 
> work at the OS/filesystem level….but they do with *nix/Windows.
> 
> Cheers
> 
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