Re: The Register: OpenVMS among most-secure of operating systems

From: Bob Koehler (koehler_at_eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org)
Date: 01/22/04 

Date: 22 Jan 2004 11:47:38 -0600

In article <buojdg$74u$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com>, Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy <Andrew_No.Harrison_No@nospamn.sun.com> writes:
>
> Fact, HP/Compaq and the various owners of TCPWARE and
> Multinet have released patches for general vunerabilites
> in OpenSource components which apply to those components
> running on OpenVMS and have admitted the vunerability
> in CERT advisories. Why would they do this if they were
> not vunerable ?

   Issuing a patch and admitting "affected" shows that there
   must have been a bug. It does not prove that the bug was a
   security issue.