[Info-vax] OpenVMS versus Windows/GE Telemetry Control Systems.

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2013-01-15 20:27:19 +0000, Stephen Hoffman said:
> 
>> On 2013-01-15 20:10:04 +0000, Bob Gezelter said:
>>
>>> I note that my published recommendation for nearly twenty years has 
>>> been to "air-gap" process control systems from the general corporate 
>>> network as well as the public Internet [citation: Computer Security 
>>> Handbook, 3rd Edition].
>>
>> That approach is great.  In theory.  But the air gap is not always 
>> practical.   As Stuxnet showed, there are ways to jump the air gap, too.
> 
> And not three minutes after posting that:
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/two-us-power-plants-infected-with-malware-spread-via-usb-drive/ 
> 
> 
> 

I seem to recall that the USB ports on Alphas were not functional under 
VMS.  If that's correct, then another security notch for VMS ...

:-)