[Info-vax] Questions and observations about OpenVMS

[David Goodwin]

On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 7:53:03 AM UTC+13, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <c8c25ad8-66ac-4864... at googlegroups.com>, 
> "jimc... at gmail.com" <jimc... at gmail.com> writes: 
> 
> > We should keep in mind that the ancient vulnerability Simon points out is n= 
> > ot just a single bug, but highlighted a number of the architectural vulnera= 
> > bilities that he, Stephen, and others have pointed out multiple times in Op= 
> > enVMS. And that many of the same engineers who designed and implemented th=
> > ose vulnerabilities went on to develop the OS architecture for Windows NT.
> Unknown for decades, now fixed, never actually used to compromise a 
> system. 
As far as we know never used to compromise a system. 33 years is an awfully long time 
for a vulnerability to go unnoticed.