[geeks] UK DECUS / OpenVMS licensing

[Phil Stracchino]

On 05/31/11 05:40, Jonathan Groll wrote:
> 'Near the end of the third day, it was printed in the periodically
> updated intranet scoreboard, that "the green team's vax is running vms
> and seems to be unhackable" (not exact quote but real close). After
> this showed up, the machine was pretty much ignored. Strangely, they
> kept calling the Alpha a VAX, but it is understandable. Next time we'l
> get a big sign that says "Alpha" and put it on our machine, or maybe
> we'll bring a vaxcluster. ' 
> 
> Of course, one has only to do a bit more reading to see how horribly
> hacked VMS was in the past. Guess most hackers nowadays have no VMS
> knowledge.

I used to know[1] a guy at CalTech who once wrote a proof-of-concept
virus in DCL, just to show that it could be done.  He showed me the code
once, on condition I never reproduce it anywhere.  It was brilliantly
simple.


[1] Diabetes got him, about fifteen years ago.

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