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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Path: sparky!uunet!stan!imp
- From: imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh)
- Subject: Re: Poor HP response to CERT
- Message-ID: <Bsvp22.7D4@solbourne.com>
- Keywords: Security
- Organization: Solbourne, User Interface Group
- References: <Bstqpw.Htw@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> <unruh.713606206@physics.ubc.ca> <36747@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:13:13 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- In article <36747@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g.
- adair) writes:
- >The amusing thing is that VMS was touted to be secure. Guffaw!
- >Every new release of VMS had at least one emergency patch for
- >security that closed a hole that allowed a non-priv'ed user to log
- >in as system.
-
- A secure system can still have bugs. That is the nature of the game.
- Dec's policy about security and VMS mandates that they release these
- patches so that systems are compromised. It appears that HP doesn't
- care enough about security to fix problems with it. That is the only
- way that unix will become more secure.
-
- Warner
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