[Info-vax] Kernel Transplantation

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-01-18, Mark Berryman <mark at theberrymans.com> wrote:
> On 1/18/24 6:06 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2024-01-17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 13:11:31 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> The server software with the vulnerability could be the DECnet stack
>>>> running on that server.
>>>
>>> Any reason why you think DECnet is particularly prone to introducing
>>> security holes, per se?
>> 
>> Because, at best, it has only had a very small fraction of the effort
>> spent on probing it that the mainstream network stacks have had.
>
> Simon's postings would tend to indicate that he believes that anything 
> not subject to constant probing by hundreds or thousands of hack.., er, 
> security researchers is just full of latent bugs waiting to be discovered.
>

Simon's relatively quick research into DECnet a couple of years ago would
seem to indicate that he has a point... :-)

Simon.

PS: $ set response/mode=good_natured :-)

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