[Info-vax] Bradley Manning and OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

On 13-12-25 18:56, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> 1.  According to the documents leaked by Snowden getting companies to agree
> to backdoors started in 2001.  Where was VMS Engineering then? 

For VAX-VMS it would have been through a patch because if I remember
correctly, 7.3 was already out and is the final version.

You are correct that if told to do so, the engineers would have done so
and kept their mouth shut.

Recently, a canadian was recently denied access to the USA. Appears the
NSA got access to her medical records and saw she was getting treatment
for depression and flagged her as "mentally ill" or something enough to
get border guards to deny her entry.

Not sure VMS ever had a presence in medical systems in Canada, but it
did in the USA so I suspect that NSA would have had some "in"  into
Cerner's software (probably more at application level than at OS level
since this would make it mroe multi platform).

At the time, VMS was probably still processing a lot of SMS messages, so
NSA would have likely wanted access to that. But whether this would have
been done at the OS level, application level or even with the carriers
(who have cooperated so easily with NSA in USA).