2009/12/11 Kevin Oberman <ober...@es.net>: >> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:49:42 +0000 >> From: Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> >> Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org >> >> Polytropon wrote: >> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfour...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> I have tried looking around and OpenBSD appears to be the undisputed >> >> #1 track record in terms of security and FreeBSD is #2 (I didn't count >> >> dragonflyBSD) >> > >> > VMS would be #0, then? :-) >> >> I dunno. Haven't seen many MS-DOS exploits recently either... > > I'm sure that there are systems happily running MSDOS, but I bet not too > many are networked. > > I know that there is still a lot of VMS out there and that it has > remained a cash cow for HP. It lived on primarily in the banking and > financial sector, though I guess the use is dropping since HP recently > outsourced support to India and that lead to the retirement of the last > of the original VMS developers, Andy Goldstein. > > Also, the the end of TECO as Andy was responsible for porting it to > almost every platform DEC ever sold (RSX, RSTS, VMS, TOPS-10 and > TOPS-20, RT-11, and several others) and continued to maintain it until > his retirement. (Most readers of this list probably don't even remember > TECO.) > > And, for may years VMS had major network security problems, especially > the infamous default DECNET/DECNET account that lead to may compromises > and the second major network worm, Worms Against Nuclear Killers. (I > won't use the acronym so as not to offend our British readers. I found > out about that when the BBC interviewed me about it and I was told that > I could not utter the word.)
Wow, I didn't know your side don't use that word... I thought I knew about all the stereotypically British ones! Do you guys have any curses or insults at all??? Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"