[Info-vax] DCL vulnerability write up on The Register

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 02/08/2018 02:13 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-02-08, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> It might be better still if an official "correction" or whatever
>> could also link to a page on the VSI website where definitive
>> information on the subject of the CVE in question and how to
>> obtain further information and assistance (from VSI or from
>> VSI partners of one form or another) could be found, which
>> might help add real credibility to claims like this:
>>
>> "VSI has redefined how professional services are provided to platform users. Given the particularly tight requirements of our mission critical customers, and the low supply of OpenVMS experts, VSI has teamed up with the best OpenVMS service providers on the platform, worldwide."
>>
> 
> Yeah, good luck with that.
> 
> For those who can attend it, perhaps this upcoming marketing event
> might be the place for people to ask about VSI's response to security
> incidents and how they plan to improve it in the future.
> 
> Sometimes, reading VSI's public statements on the security of VMS
> sounds somewhat like listening to the Iraqi Information Minister...
> 
> Simon.
> 

What!!!  There is someone else here who remembers "Smilling Ali".  :-)

bill