[Info-vax] What to do with my VAX.....

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rp8gqh$rdi$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> What people like you and Phillip need to understand is that vulnerabilities
> exist everywhere 

Yes, very probably.

> and the less popular the OS, the more likely they are to
> be silently exploited until a security researcher finally invests the time
> to probe the OS.

Yes, but on the other hand the fact that it is less popular means that
it is no as interesting as a target.  You are interested in the product
E*I, where E is "easy to exploit because there are fewer people
concerned about exploits" (because there are fewer people) and I is
"interesting for the person who wants to exploit it" (probably because
there are many such systems).  You are arguing that E is higher for VMS,
which might be true, but I is certainly much lower, so it is unclear 
whether the product E*I is higher or lower for VMS (my guess is that it 
is lower).