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On 12/9/05, Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> 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.

Though repeatedly mistaken by the hordes for a VAX, it was in fact an Alpha.

http://wiz.openvms.org/pages.php?page=DefCon9