[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-09-16, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 9/16/2021 2:04 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> There are more tools available for probing operating systems running
>> on x86-64 than there are for those same operating systems running on
>> VAX or Alpha.
>>
>> There are other reasons the barriers to probing on x86-64 are lower
>> as well. For example, those researchers are far more likely to know
>> in great detail the x86-64 architecture (when writing shellcode, etc)
>> than they would the VAX or Alpha architectures.
>>
>
> So ...  are you promoting "security through obscurity" ???
>
>:-)
>

No. But some others appear to be doing so.

Simon.

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