A Hobbyist DECnet Network

[Curt at Atari Museum]

Well... after VMS 3 it started to have good security out of the box...

I think 5.5-4 was one of the better and more secure versions...



Curt



Allison wrote:

>>Subject: Re: A Hobbyist DECnet Network
>>  From: der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
>>  Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 03:00:23 -0500 (EST)
>>    To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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>>>Probably there just aren't many hackers out there who know enough
>>>about DECnet to worry about,
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>>I suspect there are actually plenty of them - several are probably on
>>this very list - but most (verging on all, would be my guess) are
>>honest enough to be no problem.
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>There's a story of a VAX at DEFCON that was subjected to the hordes 
>and stood well.  VMS has good security out of the box, always did.
>It can be made very tight without much effort and it's also so different 
>from PCs (Hardend OS and protection in hardware) so security by obscurity
>doesn't hurt. 
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>Allison
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