[Info-vax] VMS and the Internet of Things (IoT)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-09-12 18:13:26 +0000, Chris said:

> Why is that ?. Ignoring other factors, any non X86 architecture is 
> inherently more secure that X86, in term of binary virus and malware 
> susceptibility. Most of the world's malware depends on X86 architecture 
> to run at all...

More than a little of the recent malware depends on Word macros, and — 
barring holes in the iLO firmware or Intel AME firmware — all of the 
malware is specific to a particular software package or operating 
system, and not to the underlying hardware.    Bare hardware doesn't 
and can't run malware.    But then I've chased around more than a 
little malware that was wonderfully overloading OpenVMS servers, due to 
bugs in the OpenVMS NTP server being used for reflection attacks.



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