[Info-vax] WHY IS VSI REQUIRING A HYPERVISOR FOR X86 OPENVMS?

[Dave Froble]

On 1/11/2021 9:07 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-01-11, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 1/11/2021 8:31 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> You really shouldn't go there until VMS has had the same level of security
>>> probing that other operating systems have as you might not like the results
>>> of that probing.
>>
>> Perhaps you should differentiate between what has happened in some
>> instances, and what might happen in others.
>>
>> Yes, there could be potential flaws in VMS.  The key word is
>> "potential", which is very much not the same as "is".  You are ready to
>> claim that VMS is unsafe, but you don't provide any proof, just innuendo.
>>
>
> Well David, the one bit of security research I was motivated to do
> showed that VAX/VMS (and later Alpha VMS) was wide open for 33 years
> provided you could get to the DCL command line.
>
> Next question ?

No questions ...

Just because you found a flaw, in no way means that there are other 
flaws.  Maybe yes, maybe no, but you continue to insist there must be 
more flaws.  Rather poor logic there ...

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