[Info-vax] Bradley Manning and OpenVMS

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-12-25 05:04, JF Mezei wrote:
> On 13-12-24 20:30, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>
>> 3.  What makes you think that HP wasn't one of the companies that
>> happily put backdoors in thier products (including VMS)?
>
>
> Because what is left of VMS engineering probably doesn't know how to put
> a backdoor in, and didn't have the time to learn and implement it before
> they compiled and packaged the 8.4 work done by the real engineers
> before they were unceremoniously sacked.
>
> :-)

Your constant belief in faries never cease to amaze me.
There are some kind of exploits that are more unusual and difficult to 
find in VMS because of different basic designs and practices, compared 
to Unix for example. However, there are lots of places where VMS more 
likely have way more holes than Unix as well.

And your beliefs about how engineering are/were done at DEC/Compaq/HP 
are also totally alien to me eye. You continue to repeat all kind of 
fantasies, like a mythical port of VMS to x86, magic things done by the 
old engineering teams that have just been hidden and kept away from the 
world, the total incompetence of the current team, and god knows what else.

Why can't you just try to stick to things we actually know?

	Johnny