[Info-vax] WASD startup and shareable images

[Dave Froble]

On 7/8/2019 1:59 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-07-04, Daniel Sundqvist <dsundqvist1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm trying to get the WASD webserver going on my hobbyist simh Vax system.
>>
>
> Are you planning to expose any of these older systems to the outside world ?
>
> If you are, I would urge major caution if doing so.
>
> Regardless of what some people might tell you, VMS is just like any
> other operating system when it comes to vulnerabilities.
>
> I don't want you to find that out the hard way, so be careful. :-)
>
> Simon.
>

Actually, that could be a good thing.

Hobby usage is not suppose to be used for commercial and such purposes. 
Therefore, what is lost if the system is compromised?  If the intrusion 
method is recognized, future protection against such could be implemented.

Recovery is as simple as an image restore of the disk.

Everyone does do image backups, right?

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