[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-08-03, David Wade <g4ugm at dave.invalid> wrote:
> On 03/08/2020 05:37, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> I thought exactly the same thing when I found it as it's one hell
>> of a security vulnerability to have existed undiscovered for 33 years.
>> 
>> I asked the question here at the time and got a lot of derision in
>> response to the idea that people had found VMS vulnerabilities and
>> used them instead of reporting them.
>> 
>> I don't know if the people around here are right or if (more likely)
>> some people can't accept that VMS was being exploited right at the
>> same time they were going around talking about how secure it is.
>> 
>> So let me ask the question again: do people around here think that
>> people have looked for VMS vulnerabilities, found them and then
>> hoarded them for their own use instead of reporting them ?
>> 
>
> Simon,
>
>     I doubt very much that folks are hording info for targetting VMS. 

Today maybe (at least until x86-64 VMS becomes production ready), but
what about 10 or 20 years ago ?

I was trying to establish how likely it was that someone had already
found this at any time over the previous 33 years.

Simon.

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