[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

Dirk Munk munk at home.nl
Mon Jun 8 11:06:22 EDT 2015


Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-06-08 14:30:53 +0000, Dirk Munk said:
>
>> Sure, using DECnet between systems could also be a proper show stopper
>> for a hacker :-)
>
> Sure.  Or a good way to pick off usernames and passwords in cleartext.
>
>
But then he would have to scan an internal network connection, not that 
easy. And of course you can use proxies. For that he has to log in, not 
so asy without a password (or a username), and he would have to know the 
proxy concept.



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