Re: Could somebody use SCSH, Sheme, or Lisp to create the "Lispm" architecture.

["Rupert Pigott" <roo@dark-try-removing-this-boong.demon.co.uk>]

"Brian Hurt" <bhurt@spnz.org> wrote in message
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[SNIP]

> A friend of mine uses an old Apollo DN10K workstation (for those of
> you who remember the DN10K) as his firewall/mailserver.  He derives
> great amusement watching 31337 haxorz trying to deal with this
> machine.  He hasn't be hacked yet...

I'd love to have a DN10000. :/

> Is the defense something innate to the system, or just using an
> obscure enough machine that the black hat community isn't set up to
> deal with it?

Depends on what it's running I suspect. Domain/OS
could run BSD and AIX personalities and had a sort
of Multics inspired feel to it - AFAICT. I would
not be surprised if someone has ported NetBSD to it
too. I haven't had the chance of playing with one,
more is the pity. :(

I really don't trust security by obscurity, but it
may just be difficult enough that a casual cracker
won't bother with it after discovering none of the
skr1ptz work and he can't find any 5pl017z for it
in the vulnerability databases.

Cheers,
Rupert