ComputerWeekly declares OpenVMS "Hack Proof"

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I saw this little bit of OpenVMS zealotry in ComputerWeekly:

Hack-proof and crash resistant - have you discovered the OS world's best-kept secret? OpenVMS offers unmatched robustness for business-critical apps

Curious as to their justification for calling OpenVMS "hack-proof", I did a quick search on the article and found only this little blurb:

OpenVMS also has excellent security. A hacking contest was held at the DefCon 9 conference in July 2001, where the winner was not NT, XP, Solaris, Linux or BSD. It was VMS, which was rated "cool and unhackable".

Interesting... I suppose. The article is mostly fluff and makes no mention of more mainstream operating systems for mission critical applications such as z/OS, and focuses more on using OpenVMS on the now (sadly) defunct Alpha architecture... which lacks many of the high availability features of zSeries mainframes.

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I'd be interested as to the source of the "cool and unhackable" quote. Anyone?

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So its never been hacked since then? I mean I find it kind of stupid when Organizations/Companies and otherwise proclaim such a thing not only on the basis that software is created by humans but they only give people a couple hours, days, or even weeks to hack this thing. Some exploits/attacks and whatnot out there took months to come up with. Everything is breakable if you give it time.

I don't think you should take the article too seriously, considering it reads like a giant advertizement for HP.

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I don't think you should take the article too seriously, considering it reads like a giant advertizement for HP.

*cough*

http://www.securitytracker.com/alert...l/1010684.html

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http://www.securitytracker.com/alert...l/1010684.html

LOL! And it is dated the same as the press release. Nice.