[Info-vax] (Hypothetical only) Major new security issue for VAX/Alpha. What do you do ?

[IanD]

On Monday, September 26, 2016 at 7:27:54 AM UTC+10, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> In article <653e13eee4a-abfc-4a48-bb36-a261f21ddb7e at googlegroups.com>,
> IanD  <iloveopenvmsx12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >The industry is obviously targeting security as becoming more important as things goes forward
> >
> >I happen to believe that business is prepared to pay for security more than it ever used to
> 
> Business is prepared to pay for the appearance of security.  But if businesses
> were actually prepared to pay for security we would be seeing a lot more
> capability architectures and a lot less server-side javascript.
> 

That is the same with everything

The mass understanding is what the mass put up with and digest and think is ok and right

I could go into other areas like central banking and money creation too and the results are the same, people believing what they are told and/or have failed to check for themselves

> Some of this is because a lot of people don't really know what security is,
> but in many cases when people find out what it really is and what it actually
> costs, they balk quickly.
> 
> >AMD are working on memory encryption in hardware with the driver being Cloud
> >
> >http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/AMD%20x86%20Memory%20Encryption%20Technology%20LSS%20Slides.pdf
> >
> >Looks like they have tested this stuff against linux already
> 
> This seems like the least of ones' worries.
> --scott
> 
> -- 
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

The idea of harvesting or cuddling compromises have been talked about for a while but at least someone is doing something about it

The alternative is to do nothing, which is pretty well what OpenVMS has done with security in the past 5+ years other than a smattering of catch up items. There has been no core security redevelopment