[Info-vax] alt.comp.security.vms

[John Wallace]

On Apr 19, 6:48 pm, MorrisonVU Chang <morrisonvuch... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2:54 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
>
> Koehler) wrote:
> > In article <f4c48f14-e457-412f-8add-6a4041ce2... at f5g2000vbt.googlegroups.com>, MorrisonVU Chang <morrisonvuch... at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > > theres been a new system created and i thought i should le u guys know
> > > it was rumored as being based upon a VMS structure and turns the os in
> > > to an octal system so there is a small emu layer in the kernel. it is
> > > x86 and ppc compatable mainly aimed at server systems. a press release
> > > has got leaked from some security guy at technology nets
>
> >    Sounds more like so many empty buzzwords generated to impress a CIO.
>
> well it is a press release so it is porbly supposed to sound like that
> but also i hear that they will b holding some tests there is an
> address htrax.sytes.net that seems to be up it is hosted on a hacked
> gentoo linux / vms based kernel. with some rails apps. wonder if
> anyone wants to try pentests on it to see if it is secure.

"it is hosted on a hacked gentoo linux / vms based kernel"

Not with the meaning of VMS as used in comp.os.vms it isn't.

It's also quite rare for something to be touted as x86 and PPC
compatible (especially in this context, considering neither of them
run VMS in a secure emulation-free way).

(sorry about the premature use of send key in previous post)