[Info-vax] Have the NSA planted backdoors in VMS ?

[Derrell Piper]

On Monday, January 8, 2018 at 2:14:45 PM UTC-8, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> Once again, I remind people to read Ken Thompson's "Reflections
> on Trusting Trust".   Written and delivered in 1983.  Talks of
> a hidden backdoor in Unix from long before that.  Tell me again
> how you think it unlikely something like a backdoor could be
> put into VMS.

Also read David A. Wheeler's 2009 PhD dissertation:

https://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/