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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-02-18, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>
> True.  However, apparently no-one ever did compromise a system in the 
> way you describe.  Maybe because all who were in a position to do so 
> were wearing white hats?
>

No, not no-one, but no-one that you know about. There's a bit of a difference.

There's no way that I am the first to find this in 30 years, especially
given the types of sites that VMS was used in during its heyday.

I'm just the first one to report it so it can be fixed.

Simon.

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