[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Dave Froble]

On 4/22/2024 11:16 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>>
>> That said, some of the greybeards have no idea (and I mean none
>> whatsoever) of how modern systems _actually_ work under the hood
>> themselves.  Those in glass houses....
>
> I am certainly in that category and believe me it absolutely terrifies me.
> It terrifies me even more that when I ask people how things work inside,
> nobody else seems to know either!
>
> What worries me is that we have a generation of people who don't really care.
> Or maybe more than one generation.
> --scott
>
>

Well, sometimes they SHOULD care ...

A while back, an employee at a customer site, when attempting to discuss 
security, the employee said "my boss doesn't care about security".  Ok, no sense 
continuing discussion.

Time passes, and as it happens, site gets hit with ransomware.  Not the VMS 
system, the WEENDOZE PCs.  Cost them maybe $100K to get over that.  Makes one 
wonder if boss now cares about security.

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