* Posts by angrydave

1 publicly visible post • joined 6 Feb 2018

Ghost in the DCL shell: OpenVMS, touted as ultra reliable, had a local root hole for 30 years

angrydave

Re: The sky is falling in

"One security bug in 30 years. Oh the world is coming to an end."

Good god, what do you think were on the emergency patch magtapes that used to turn up every few weeks?

The CCC got started by reverse engineering those patches to find vulns and exploit them, leading to the morning of infamy when every VAX VMS node on JANET was pwned.

Nice new nym you have there, shame it's burned now.