On 20-Apr-09, at 2:35 PM, Gregory Hicks wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:33:07 +0300 >> From: Gadi Evron <[email protected]> >> >> Larry Seltzer wrote: >>> Facinating. Think of how secure DOS and CP/M are by this standard. >> >> They would be secure, very secure. >> >> They may not necessarily be stable or stand up to a targeted attack >> which knows what they are running, but generally, they'd be the most >> secure machines on the Internet. > > If they could even GET on the Internet. (Did/Do they have a TCP > Stack? I don't think they did... But I could be wrong...)
KA9Q was used to do TCP over packet radio for CP/M machines AFAIR. I had left behind the z80 for 80286 machines and uucp by then so I never used it. And frankly I don't think their obscurity would provide much security - even older lame exploits would work against that immature code, and no MMU... well... cheers, --dr -- World Security Pros. Cutting Edge Training, Tools, and Techniques London, U.K. May 27/28 2009 http://eusecwest.com pgpkey http://dragos.com/ kyxpgp _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
