[Info-vax] Command Procedure Pipe output to a variable

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/6/2021 10:52 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> Just one example: the implementation of proxies in DECnet opens up
>> a _massive_ security hole in today's world as DECnet was designed
>> in a world where you assumed 100% trust in the network and in all
>> the devices attached to it.
> 
> There are still plenty of networks where you can make that assumption.
> The internet is not one.  But not everything is the internet, no matter
> how hard the "cloud people" try to make everyone think it is.
> 
> A lot of bad things happened in the opening of the internet when protocols
> designed that way suddenly had to be used over untrusted links.  Even worse
> stuff happened to the telephone network when SS7 was extended onto untrusted
> links.  But not all networks have untrusted links.
> 
>> The idea that a machine can impersonate a server simply by using the
>> same network address without needing any other information such as
>> certificates or shared secrets is unacceptable today.
> 
> It's certainly unacceptable on the internet, but not everything is the
> internet.

There are lots of networks where outsider hackers do not have
access.

But when you start worrying about insider hackers then it becomes
more problematic.

Arne