Re: OT: Hack contest
- From: Bob Gezelter <gezelter@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 04:08:23 -0800 (PST)
On Feb 8, 12:18 am, Phaeton <phae...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.news.com/2102-1002_3-6229577.html?tag=st.util.print
Vista, Leopard, Linux to compete in hack contest.
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I wonder why VMS is not there... :-)
Cheers, Csaba
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The bigger the front, the bigger the back.
Phaeton,
Probably since a team led by the late John Wisniewski fielded an
OpenVMS at DEFCON 9 (see https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc_press/archives/9/vmsone_writeup.htm
). It was rated "cool and unhackable". Or, if one prefers a more
official comment, see the comments at the tail end of "Achieving the
Highest Levels of IT Security with HP OpenVMS (presently at
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA0-2896ENW.pdf ).
I recall John mentioning that after that contest, the rules were
changed to "require an Intel processor", effectively excluding OpenVMS
from the competition until the advent of the Itanium version. While
John was an HP employee, the DEFCON expedition was a private project
of John and a few of his friends from the DFWLUG.
- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com
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