[Info-vax] Questions and observations about OpenVMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-03-07, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <s2302h$sbd$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>> 
>> That works great until the local network gets compromised.
>
> If the local network gets compromised, you likely have much bigger 
> problems than insecure DECnet on that network.
>

The idea is to try and make an attacker have to get through additional
levels of security even if they manage to establish a foothold on your
local network.

>> VMS Mail got altered a decade or two back to stop displaying some escape
>> sequences in an email to stop them causing abuse. I don't know the details
>> as they were never published in the notice I remember seeing.
>
> Characters with ASCII codes higher than } are displayed as $.
>

Thanks.

Simon.

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