From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9333969071d4358 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Suggestions to a Newbie Date: 2000/08/19 Message-ID: <7bxlK4EmPT7r@eisner.decus.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 660097392 References: <8ngv4j$ko9$1@news01.cit.cornell.edu> <399C4A87.F0A16B8C@acm.org> <399D472D.540CBAA@acm.org> <8nk09h$srp4@news.kvaerner.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 966697946 216.44.122.34 (Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:12:26 GMT) Organization: LJK Software NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:12:26 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <8nk09h$srp4@news.kvaerner.com>, "Tarjei T. Jensen" 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.