DEC was once the largest private employer in the state. I should hope that a silver lining in this dark cloud will be that other innovative startup companies will move in and hire talented, skilled workers from NH who do not want to commute to Massachusetts everyday and pay income tax with no representation in the state legislature.

Obviously you had access to a utility developed by someone who originally had supervisory level privileges, and who could then extend the necessary privileges to the utility to allow for changing file creation dates.

If you were to try to gain privileges from a non-priviledged account, you would be unable to do so. There are no known ways to trick OpenVMS into granting you privileges beyond those you are permitted. You can be temporarily granted privileges to run specific code sections, but someone with system privs has to deliberately grant you permission. Otherwise, no way.

OpenVMS has been the effort of cracking efforts at several DefCons throughout the years, not ONCE has it be penetrated.

i was able to use a "special" utility to change file creation/change dates on my college VMS system...WHY?

... had to back-date assignments that were late...

not hackable. ha.

It's unfortunate that the employees couldn't add value to their innovations. Paradigm.

This had been a long time coming. It was obvious it would happen - HP had been pulling people out of the building for years. In fact, Equalogic (founded by ex-DECcies, most of whom worked in ZKO) has now rented a big swath of the building. It's the circle of technology life...

Cries silently into his beer....

Damn, those folks were so ahead of their time with their innovations...

Just another indication that HP is run by mentally-challenged drooling idiots... Damn those in-bred corporate types....

Salutes the memory of DEC, the PDP series, the VAX series, and the ALPHA series, plus the never-cracked, never-hacked OS, OpenVMS. Oh, and RSX-11M, which is what this grizzled veteran cut his real-time teeth on.