[Info-vax] Security, support and VMS, was: Re: A new VMS?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-05-03, David Turner <dturner at islandco.com> wrote:
> Well I was talking more about simple support. Not patching etc
> There are a lot of customers out there happy and content with their 
> current status.
> They just need a hand held when something goes wrong
> I would say that goes for the majority of users out there.
>

Huh ??? The majority of VMS users don't care about keeping their
systems up to date and fully patched ???

I am having a hard time believing that...

This isn't 20 years ago and anyone who acts like it is will find
this out sooner or later.

The thing about security is that you simply don't know if the
next security issue that will affect you is just around the corner.

Please tell me David is very wrong about this and that most VMS sites
do consider themselves to be just as vulnerable as everyone else
and take all the usual precautions as a result.

If he is right about this, just think about what will happen when
one of the security researchers decide to probe x86-64 VMS. Much of
what they find, and they _will_ find vulnerabilities, will apply to
earlier architectures as well.

Simon.

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