From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Suggestions to a Newbie
Date: 2000/08/19
Date: 2000-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bxlK4EmPT7r@eisner.decus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8nk09h$srp4@news.kvaerner.com
In article <8nk09h$srp4@news.kvaerner.com>, "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> writes:
>
> Marin D. Condic wrote:
>>Too bad VMS is fading into the background - withering in the shade cast
>>by the various flavors of Unix. (I'm a hard core VMS bigot!) Maybe
>>Compaq ought to make the source public and maybe someone could make a
>>Linux-like thing out of it?
>
>
> I seem to remember having read that VMS is getting a second life as a web
> server platform. There is a lot of unix hackers around. Running your public web
> service on something exotic like a VMS or Macintosh server gives you an added
> level of security. Security through obscurity seems to work.
In the case of the Macintosh, it is not just obscurity.
The operating system has no command line interpreter,
so the attack path of getting to the command prompt
just isn't available.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-17 0:00 Suggestions to a Newbie Cagdas Ozgenc
2000-08-17 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-08-17 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-08-17 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-18 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-08-18 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-18 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-08-19 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-08-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-08-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2000-08-17 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
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