[Info-vax] VMS Software Partners with Stark Gaming to Create Revolutionary Online Gaming and eSport Server Infrastructure

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-08-05, Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> wrote:

> Gaming on an alpha with an S3 Trio card, or was it Colossal Cave that
> DEC missed? Anyway, using vms as a secure repository server makes
> sense, technically and commercially. Gaming is a serious business. But
> the websites weren't that obvious on where vms was supposed to go.
> When (if?) Kerry can make this work then it is good publicity for all
> companies involved.

> One problem though, it might put vms back on the map as a real
> interesting target for virus designers.
 
One of the stated aims is to stop cheating, so in a sense the business
model is already ahead of the non-gaming commercial world by thinking
about security first.

If you have to assume from the start that you are going to get attacked,
you can put defences into the core of the product(s) rather than tacking
them on later.

It's not going to be easy though.  There will be cheats and the monetary
sums involved will no doubt attract the bad guys.

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