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- $! 58 ADAWI . : FFS EA !$
- $! 19 BLSS : SETPRV BYPASS CMKRNL DiAGNOSE READALL . INCL D6 !$
- $! BC CHMK ^ VOLPRO iMPERSONATE SHARE WORLD UPGRADE v JSB 16 !$
- $! B7 DECW | | LDPCTX 06 !$
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- $! 7A EMUL | | MATCHC 39 !$
- $! EB FFC | .................................... | PROBER 0C !$
- $! 0A INDEX | :__ __: __ : ______ : | REMQUE 0F !$
- $! 17 JMP | :\$\ /$/: |@| : |&&&&&&| : | SVPCTX 07 !$
- $! 3A LOCC | : \$\ /$/ : |@| : |&|____ : | TSTG 53FD !$
- $! 2F MOVTUC | : \$\ /$/ : |@| : |&&&&&&| : | VGATHQ 37FD !$
- $! 0D PROBEW | : \$\/$/ : |@|____ : |&| : | XORW3 AD !$
- $! 02 REI | : \$$/ : |@@@@@@| : |&| : | ASHQ 79 !$
- $! 2A SCANC | :............:..........:..........: | BGTRU 1A !$
- $! 73FD TSTH | | CRC 0B !$
- $! E9FD VSXORL | --:: THE VMS LiBERATiON FRONT ::-- | VSYNC A8FD !$
- $! FC XFC | | CLRL D4 !$
- $! 35FD VGATHL | +=================+ | MTVP A9FD !$
- $! 60 ADDD2 | -- +| IN VMS WE TRUST |+ -- | SPANC 2B !$
- $! DF PUSHAL | +=================+ | PUSHR BB !$
- $! - -- <--+----------------------------------------+--< - -- !$
- $! 03 BPT | | POPR BA !$
- $! FA CALLG ^ THE VERNON PRESERVATiON UNDERGROUND v IOTA EDFD !$
- $! 97 DECB . DEDiCATED TO PROJECT EMERALD : NOP 01 !$
- $! 74FD EMODH : . HALT 00 !$
- --:: PRESENTS ::--
- $!-- VLF::SYS$TARGET:[RELEASE] ---------------------------------------!$
- Corel.WordPerfect.v5.3.OpenVMS.VAX.AXP.Cracked.Repack-VLF
- SOFTWARE NAME: Corel WordPerfect v5.3 OpenVMS
- SOFTWARE TYPE: Rich Text Word Processor
- DEVELOPER: The Corel Corporation
- URL: http://www.corel.com/
- VLF RCE.....: Subcommandante BYPASS RELEASE TYPE....: WORD PROCESSOR
- SUPPLiER....: TEAM VLF RELEASE DATE....: 2016-12-27
- PACKER......: TEAM VLF RELEASE DiSKS...: 16 X 5M
- LANGUAGE....: English RELEASE FORMAT..: vlfaaj*
- PROTECTiON..: CUSTOM RCE MEDiCiNE....: CUSTOM
- PLATFORM....: OpenVMS VAX | AXP DiSTRIBUTION....: PUBLiC
- $!-- VLF::SYS$TARGET:[RELEASE.DESCRiPTiON] ---------------------------!$
- Corel WordPerfect 5.3 For OpenVMS
- Empower Your OpenVMS Users
- The World's Best-Selling Word Processor for OpenVMS Systems
- WordPerfect for OpenVMS Systems combines the world's bestselling word
- processor with the power and performance of the OpenVMS System; it's
- the most versatile and powerful communications solution for today's
- OpenVMS users. Selected as Compaq Corporation's "preferred document
- processing software," WordPerfect 5.3 on your OpenVMS Systems gives
- your organization the following benefits:
- - Standardize your corporate word processing across platforms.
- WordPerfect 5.3 now provides full compatibility with WordPerfect
- running on other platforms so that other users or work groups using
- different operating systems can share information and projects quickly
- and easily.
- - Integrate text and graphics in order to improve the impact of
- everything you produce - from memos and documents, to letters, reports,
- and more.
- - Save on training costs! WordPerfect 5.3 is the logical choice for
- users already familiar with WordPerfect on another platform. And for
- users migrating to WordPerfect from another word processor, 5.3's
- enhanced keyboard mapping tools make the transition easy and painless.
- - Print to any of the over 1,000 printers (and growing!) supported by
- WordPerfect 5.3 for OpenVMS Systems.
- - Link spreadsheets and graphics to your document. If changes are made
- to the spreadsheet or graphic image, your document will be
- automatically updated when it is retrieved.
- - Improve productivity with powerful WordPerfect features like Tables,
- Equation Editor, View Document, Macro Editor, Merge tools, Character
- Sets, Pull-Down Menus, and much more!
- - Languages available include U.S. English, U.K. English, Danish,
- Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish,
- and Swiss!
- $!-- VLF::SYS$RCE:[iNSTALL.REGiSTRATiON.NOTES] -----------------------!$
- Read, carefully, the "AAAREADME.TXT" installation guide text file in
- the release archive save-set.
- NOTE: There was a packing error in this release:
- 2016-12-25: Corel.WordPerfect.v5.3.OpenVMS.VAX.AXP.Cracked-VLF
- The release was packed with obsolete license installation scripts which
- were unable to execute automatic license installation.
- \Install\WPC053_LIC_25-SEP-2014.ZIP
- However, the manual license installation steps, as described in
- installation guide (AAAREADME.TXT) would have worked correctly.
- The repack re-release has the up to date, correctly functioning,
- license installation scripts.
- $!-- VLF::SYS$MERRY:[CHRISTMAS.2016] ---------------------------------!$
- Seasonal, seasoned, greetings to the VMS collegiates of comp.os.vms!
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- $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[iNFO] -------------------------------------------!$
- "They can't abide the cold steel, sir! no, sir! They don't like it up
- 'em."
- -- Lance-Corporal Jack Jones (The local butcher), "Dad's Army," BBC TV
- Subcommandante BYPASS ...... Reverse Code Engineer, Programmer
- Subcommandante XDelta ...... Cheer Squad, Special Operations
- http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=2606
- NB: We were aiming for a v1.0 Final release of this NFO and the VLF
- MANiFESTO and ACTiViSM road-map, by 25.10 (2012), but health issues and
- the vicissitudes of life decided otherwise; nil desperandum; per ardua
- ad astra; nil illegitimus carborundum; Persta atque obdura.
- $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[MANiFESTO] --------------------------------------!$
- --:: THE VMS LiBERATiON FRONT MANiFESTO ::--
- <v1.0 FiNAL>
- We hold these truths to be self-evident:
- That in VMS we trust.
- That the VMS Operating System is part of the intellectual heritage and
- conceptual literacy in the commonwealth of computer science, the most
- immaculate, logical, systematic, disciplined, and literate culture and
- 'vade mecum' about how to go about the business of computing at every
- level of operating system function, that has ever been designed,
- devised and documented, it is a glory and testament to human ingenuity.
- That the VMS Operating System mind-share, installation, third-party
- developer and expertise ecologies should never be allowed to collapse
- and die off or be inhibited from flourishing by the commercial
- expediency of Hewlett Packard nor the ruthless self-interest of third
- parties; that VMS will always be a viable Operating System culture for
- current and future generations of humanity.
- That the VMS Operating System should be simultaneously ported to all of
- the Intel CPU architectures, both 32 and 64 bit, where all of the
- Microsoft Windows New Technology series of Operating Systems are
- manifest from the main-frame to the micro-computer and also ported to
- the 32 and 64 bit ARM architectures.
- That the VMS Operating System should become a hybrid commercial Open
- Source Software system where Hewlett Packard generates income from
- Service Level Agreements they can actually deliver on for Business
- Critical Systems on certified hardware for enterprises, institutions
- and governments and so that the research and development, the
- evolution, of VMS can never ever again be suppressed or extinguished.
- That neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, nor the
- machinations and the visionary mediocrity of the Hewlett Packard and
- Microsoft corporations will stay our crackers and couriers from the
- swift and sure completion of their self appointed tasks and duties.
- $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[NEWS] -------------------------------------------!$
- The 35th Anniversary of the mighty VMS Operating System was on the
- 25th of October 2012.
- The 35th Anniversary Count-down Timer:
- http://is.gd/The_35th_Anniversary_Of_VMS
- We recommended quaffing quality lagered products for the occasion;
- sinking severally in celebration of the unstoppable, unsinkable,
- unkillable, VMS!
- We also recommend quaffing quality lagered products for the subsequent
- Anniversaries of the mighty VMS operating system as well!
- $!-- VLF::SYS$GREETiNGS:[SALUTATiONS] --------------------------------!$
- No one currently, we, the DELTA:: node of the VLF, the Vernon
- Preservation Underground, are out of left field and are sui generis.
- You get that on the big jobs.
- $!-- VLF::SYS$RESPECT:[DEDiCATiONS] ----------------------------------!$
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- The work of the VMS Liberation Front is dedicated to the memory and the
- completion and extension of "Project Emerald" and the preservation and
- evolution of Vernon, the VMS mascot and totemic animal and all that he
- represents.
- http://www.vaxination.ca/vms/shark/history.html
- Refresh your memories:
- http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/
- http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/vmsbook.pdf
- We also salute the memory of BiG KEN OLSEN, may he rest in Silicon
- Heaven, and all the digits who made it all possible within DEC, the
- Digital Equipment Corporation.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation
- $!-- VLF::SYS$LEGALiTiES:[CAVEATS] -----------------------------------!$
- The policy and philosophy of the VLF with its keygenning, cracking and
- reverse code engineering (RCE) projects, is not the 'piracy' of
- intellectual property for the sake of it, per se, but to preserve,
- cultivate, and extend VMS mind-share for the future generations, VMS is
- too great a creation to be lost to humanity due to the cupidity and
- stupidity of HP management.
- The VLF releases will establish the basis for which the VMS expertise
- ecologies of system programmers, analysts, system administrators,
- operators and network, security, capacity planning, technical support
- specialists and application developers can start to be repopulated,
- from the current near catastrophic collapse and extinction, from the
- coming generations of computer science students, by demolishing the
- entry barriers to them being able to familiarise themselves with VMS
- and the Layered Products - the entry barriers for students being, of
- course, the cost of software and hardware.
- Sure Information Technology people can learn GNU/Linux and the Open
- Source Free Software tools for some decent conceptual and procedural
- literacy, but, alas, the vast majority are going to be eking out a
- computing crust mentally mutilating themselves mastering microsoft
- methodology, wallowing in the La Brea tar-pit of their near monopoly on
- matters computing.
- Which is a profound tragedy when they could, in a slightly better
- world, be learning the VMS way to achieve the same goals on the same
- CPU architectures and platforms but with a much more conceptually
- literate and functionally facilitative mental life.
- So during the period when computer science students are as poor as
- church-mice, studying, with the resources the VLF provides, they can
- study VMS and bootstrap themselves into competence, confidence, and
- conceptual clarity, and if they start earning money from their VMS
- skills, then it's time to buy the tools that they use.
- Businesses and professionals buying tools from other businesses to run
- their business makes the business world go round at the very least.
- The VLF does not condone or approve of its releases being used for
- commercial gain at all, the purpose of the VLF releases is to stop and
- reverse the extinction of the VMS expertise ecology and mind-share for
- current and future generations.
- The VLF does not apologise to the developers whose products we reverse
- code engineer (RCE), since any such gesture would be dismissed, thus,
- instead, we reinforce the observation that if the VLF considered their
- application worth cracking and integrating into the VMS Liberation
- Front tool-kit to assist in boot-strapping the VMS expertise ecology
- back from catastrophic collapse by making the learning of VMS
- accessible and practical to the current and future generations of
- computer science students, then the application is worth buying, and if
- the VMS business, government and institutional installation ecology
- boot-straps back into renascent vigor, then sales will naturally come
- their way.
- Hewlett-Packard management of its VMS asset is the greatest impediment
- to your VMS applications' sales - direct your anger accurately,
- intelligently and effectively and publicly at them.
- "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students
- that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they
- are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
- -- Professor Edsger Dijkstra, "How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?",
- ACM SIGPLAN Notices Vol 17 No 5, May 1982
- One wonders what the good professor thought of Microsoft...
- $!-- VLF::SYS$SYSTEM:[ACTiViSM] --------------------------------------!$
- "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
- -- John Gilmore, http://www.toad.com/gnu/
- We the DELTA:: node of the VLF, the VMS Liberation Front, have
- regretfully concluded that HP management is damage to VMS and we are
- committed to routing around it.
- The DELTA:: node of the VLF specialises in bypassing intellectual
- property protection so that no one else in the VMS activism world has
- to, although many, of course, have the requisite technical skills to
- parallel our work - we are the Vernon Preservation Underground.
- Those VMS activists that are above ground and publicly active, we fully
- realise, will not be able to use the VLF releases, even if they were
- inclined to, and we do not assume that anyone would be so inclined,
- they will have to abide with existing DEC hardware, the open-source
- free-ware hardware emulators, and also the endure the vagaries,
- vexations, and vicissitudes, of the HP Hobbyist VMS and layered
- products program, and in saying that we mean absolutely no disrespect,
- at all, to the VMS true believers who have worked, patiently and
- persistently, within, and without of, the corporation to ensure that a
- Hobbyist program exists and persists.
- The objective of the DELTA:: node of the VMS Liberation Front is to
- reboot and repair the catastrophic collapse of the VMS expertise
- ecology by systematically removing all impediments for the current
- generations of computer science students from being able to study,
- learn, and master the VMS way. We have achieved this with the LibreVMS
- LMFGEN license generator for VMS and LP and the LibreCHARON Stromasys
- VAX and AXP hardware emulators.
- Vernon will be able thrive and survive at existing VMS revision levels
- and extant CPU architectures in full independence and autonomy, forever
- proofed against any extinction policies within or without of the
- Hewlett Packard corporation, the current owners of the VMS intellectual
- property.
- This the VLF Liberation Front has unambiguously established.
- However such underground, intellectual property transgressing activism
- is necessary but insufficient. What is also required is muscular and
- vigorous above-ground activism, in a logical, systematic and diligent
- manner with a lip curling snarl and no reservation with tooth and claw.
- With the VMS die-hards, if it isn't NDAs staying their hand, it's the
- HP VMS Hobbyist program, it has had natural effect of inhibiting full
- and frank commentary and fearless action, since there is the implicit
- fear that access to the VMS Hobbyist program would be withdrawn, either
- individually or generally, the LiBREVMS LMFGEN is an 'entente cordiale'
- nuclear deterrent to such inhibiting actions.
- The first step in legal, above ground, VMS activism is to become a HP
- shareholder, as HP is a publicly listed company and to then sit on your
- tranche of shares and hence become a passionate, practical and
- principled part-owner of the Hewlett Packard corporation. As a
- part-owner of the HP corporation, you are then entitled to participate
- in the deliberative assemblies of the company, such as AGMs (Annual
- General Meetings) in accordance with Corporations Law and the HP
- Constitution and to engage in share-holder activism such as the calling
- of EGMs (Extraordinary General Meetings) with a sufficient quorum of
- your fellow share-holders and the concomitant notification to all
- share-holders of such an EGM and reason for it, as just one instance of
- activism.
- As a share-holder, you are entitled to be angry, and you should be very
- angry at the compromise and degradation of both dividends and long term
- share holder value by the gross neglect and vandalism, over the last
- decade, of what should be one of the principal pillars and engines of
- income generation for the HP Corporation, the OpenVMS operating system,
- in all tiers of computing, from the macro to the micro, from the
- nano-scale to the giga-scale.
- As a share-holder, you should be proud and grateful, if current or
- past, principled, brave, and loyal HP employees decides, NDAs be
- damned, to become whistle-blowers on HP senior management policy on the
- VMS asset, disgusted by the lack of any promotion or advertisement of
- VMS, let alone the butchering of VMS Engineering, technical support,
- software maintenance, and research and development.
- As a share-holder, if the current database of VMS installations
- customers (sans any sensitive government clients, of course!) was
- leaked (and also any COTS, VAR, ISV, ETC, vendor databases), you would
- not see that as an act prejudiced against share-holder value at all,
- but rather a sunlight opportunity for the VMS installations customer
- base, and other VMS related vendors, to become totally reflexively
- aware, thence cooperatively constellating and engaging in share holder
- activism as well, the STAR:: Node of VMS above-ground activism.
- Needless to say, in the year 2012, since the demise of DEC in 1998, and
- the five years of dithering during the Compaq era, until Compaq was
- merged with HP in the 2002, and then this last long, lean, decade of
- malign neglect, that the remaining VMS customer base is rusted on,
- either by need or by judicious and sagacious choice, either way they
- see VMS as being critical to their business operations, hence they are
- strongly motivated in matters VMS.
- If the VMS installations customer base was to become totally
- reflexively aware, then even though sections of it may be, technically,
- competing against each other in particular markets, the one thing they
- would agree on unanimously and have sound cause to transcend their
- competitive differences upon, is the enduring merit of the VMS
- operating system as a foundation of their business, thence they can
- cooperatively constellate to prosecute, vigorously, and intelligently,
- the VMS cause, in rational self interest, collectively.
- The extant rusted-on, reflexively aware, VMS customer and vendor base,
- could all then purchase their own share tranches in HP and then form a
- VMS Industry Association, with a "VMS Engineering Quality", carefully
- constructed, constitution, including a rule that the voting weight of
- any association member is the (logarithm base 10 of their share
- holdings + 1) rounded down to the nearest integer - this substantially
- levels the deliberative playing field within the association, whilst
- also acknowledging the size of the players to an appropriate extent. A
- technical aside on constitutional design - Professor Peter Suber, of
- the Department of Philosophy, at Earlham College, in the USA, invented
- a game called "Nomic", back in 1982, it can be very useful to study so
- as to be able to design robust "VMS Quality" constitutional
- instruments, that are proofed against the relentless clausal mutation
- by oligopolies of petty self-interests.
- https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
- It is also in the realm of possibility, albeit, perhaps, not
- probability, but that would have to be tested in practice, that such a
- VMS Industry Association might be able to force the installation of a
- Director on the HP Board, by dint of the co-ordinated share-holdings of
- its members. Such a VMS Advocacy directorship on the HP board may not
- result in cheaper support and maintenance contracts for the VMS
- Industry Association members (HA!), however they will be able to
- effectively audit and determine whether they are getting value for
- money, verifying whether HP has the actual expertise and resource
- infrastructure to properly deliver on their VMS maintenance and support
- SLAs (Service Level Agreements) for the members' business critical
- systems (BCS); indeed it would be incumbent prudential due diligence on
- the VMS Advocacy director to determine whether HP management have been
- practicing deep fraud in this regard for the last decade.
- This is but the shallow shoals of what an activism enfranchised and
- emancipated VMS installations customer and vendor base could do, if it
- cooperatively constellates into the STAR:: (above ground) legal node of
- the VMS Liberation Movement.
- "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped
- in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is
- Russian national interest."
- -- Winston Churchill, BBC Radio Broadcast, 1st October 1939
- The actions of HP management of the VMS asset over the last dread
- decade, is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, and there is
- a key, and that key is radical self-interest - radical self-interest
- that is not in the interests of long term HP share holder value and
- never has been.
- The OpenVMS asset is in an deliberately induced coma in the HP hospice
- in an Itanium sarcophagus on a starvation drip feed with it's VMS
- Engineering heart ripped out and replaced with something risible that
- cannot patch, cannot port and cannot pursue research and development -
- and yet, OpenVMS still has a pulse and can regenerate from survival
- back to thriving with exigent, immediate, interdiction into HP
- management - they must be called to account.
- The key of radical self-interest is blindingly obvious: cherchez le
- Microsoft.
- Ken Olsen's original goal with the Digital Equipment Corporation was to
- give computing power to the people, quality was paramount and
- excellence was trusted to sell, maximum value and utility for market
- price. Microsoft is the antithesis of the DEC ethos, quality and
- excellence are sub-ordinate to profit, minimum value and utility for
- maximum price, and the full spectrum monopolistic domination in all
- market segments, by any means they can get away with, Microsoft
- benchmarks 'corporation as psychopath,' they are not interested in
- giving computer power to the people but the opposite, making people the
- disenfranchised computer peons of Microsoft in choiceless perpetuity.
- Let us review salient historical events:
- 1988: Microsoft hire O/S architects and engineers, led by Dave Cutler,
- from the Digital Equipment Corporation to build Windows NT.
- 1993: Microsoft Windows/NT v3.1 first released.
- 1995: Microsoft's Bill Gates and DEC's Robert Palmer announce the
- 'Affinity for OpenVMS' program, to assist customers implementing the
- (apparent) 'complementary' strengths of OpenVMS and Windows/NT in a
- three-tier client/server environment...
- 1998: Compaq no longer supports Windows/NT (32 bit) on AXP.
- The branch never falls far from the tree, and VMS was on the Microsoft
- assassination hit list, as of 1988, as a consequence of hiring DEC
- architects and engineers to design and implement Windows/NT, the child
- was always going to kill the parent. When Windows NT was initially
- ported to the Alpha AXP CPU architecture, the writing would have well
- and truly been on the wall that although W/NT and VMS are the two most
- comparable O/S architecturally, there is absolutely no comparison, in
- terms of performance, versatility, reliability, fault tolerance,
- security and utility, that was true in 1993 and remains true today in
- 2012, VMS utterly trumps Windows NT series operating systems, that is
- true on the AXP architecture and also true on the Itanium.
- Thus Microsoft committed to ensuring that VMS would never be ported to
- those CPU architectures and computing tiers where Microsoft dominates
- commercially, namely the Intel x86 and AMD64 CPU architectures, never
- ever, regardless of the multiple tier, super-scalability of the VMS
- operating system, and that remains true today. Microsoft also committed
- to ensuring that it was difficult to benchmark and compare W/NT and VMS
- on any architectures.
- The Microsoft covert strategies for ensuring this are, at least, two
- fold:
- 1. Microsoft cultivating key human assets in the employment of DEC,
- Compaq and HP that could shape both VMS policy and Windows Licensing
- negotiations to Microsoft's convenience.
- 2. Microsoft encouraging 'Beads for Manhattan' strategies in Compaq
- post 1998 and then the merged HP-Compaq, post 2002, where they get
- 'discounted' Windows licenses, so long as they commit to not porting
- VMS to the Intel x86 and AMD64 architectures.
- It is a 'Beads for Manhattan' strategy in that Compaq and HP-Compaq, in
- getting 'discounted' licences, and forgoing challenging Microsoft
- directly head-on, in its eminent CPU domains and computing tiers with
- the infinitely superior VMS, were getting the worthless 'beads' of
- volume price discounts, good for trivial short term profit but not long
- term market strength, and surrendering the opportunity to generate VMS
- income in those tiers of computation that Microsoft have an artificed,
- near, monopoly, with that infinitely superior product - VMS.
- The 'threat' of porting VMS, kept in an induced coma on life support,
- rings increasingly hollow with every passing year, Microsoft feigns
- response in negotiations; yet, if the port was actually done, the
- threat would become very real indeed.
- The HP-Compaq oxymoronic benchmarking management of its VMS asset has
- always been at maximal cognitive dissonance, the antithesis of any
- conceivable business rationality, the challenge was to make sense of
- the senselessness.
- The cupidity and the stupidity, the corruption and incompetence within
- HP-Compaq management, needs to come to an end, Microsoft human assets
- within HP management, particular VMS policy management need to be
- identified and removed; similarly those in HP management that think
- cheaper Windows licenses is preferable to the re-fitting and
- re-ignition of the VMS income generation engine, need to be identified
- and removed.
- The OpenVMS asset remains chained to the Itanium 'Itanic' ship-wreck on
- the bottom of the Mariana trench of enterprise computing without any
- advertising or promotion and it is time at its 35th Anniversary that it
- was liberated and finally ported to all 'WinTel' and AMD64 and ARM CPU
- Architectures, wherever Microsoft Corporation Windows New Technology
- series and derivative Operating Systems are manifest.
- To assert that VMS is outmoded, obsoleted, yesterday's legacy
- technology, is as absurd as asserting that the biochemistry of your DNA
- and of your immune system are similarly so. Vernon is the natural
- proprietary predator of Microsoft installations in all tiers of
- computation, from the enterprise to the personal, from the macro to the
- micro, from the nano-scale to the giga-scale, and the ecological
- balance needs to be restored.
- When that is achieved then and only then can the DELTA:: Node of the
- VLF, the Vernon Preservation Underground, retire back to the realms of
- myth and legend.
- The rising star and spectacular success of Microsoft and the Windows/NT
- Operating System and its thriving third-party applications, services
- and expertise ecologies has been directly at the expense of VMS and the
- precipitous collapse, and near extinction of the VMS installation base,
- and its third-party applications, services and expertise ecologies; it
- is the computing crime of the 21st Century par excellence.
- This 0.9.5.0 BETA VLF version of a VMS activism plan is not intended to
- be comprehensive, but it is a modest, yet non-trivial and pertinent
- basis from which to start envisioning about unsentimental, muscular and
- fearless, VMS Activism, and the VLF do encourage all that are
- passionate about the heritage of VMS, to trade in their ten gallon
- Stetson hats for one hundred gallon Stetson hats instead and to then
- have a long hard, think or re-think about 'nail-gun:wall' pro-active
- strategies to establish the renaissance of VMS for the next 35 years
- and to then publish your thoughts on comp.os.vms.
- 25th October 2012
- The VMS Liberation Front
- In VMS We Trust
- "It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of
- our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their
- industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of
- meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to
- excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds
- to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."
- -- John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President,
- Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756
- $!-- VLF::SYS$SYSTEM:[ACTiViSM.ADDENDA] ------------------------------!$
- The VLF activism plan cited in the previous section, was principally
- written (with some minor copy editing, subsequently), circa the
- circumstances, as of the 35th Anniversary of VMS, on the 25th of
- October, 2012. Rather than re-edit it to adapt to current developments,
- we have left it as a historical snapshot of the Team VLF analytical
- thinking.
- The VMS Liberation Front are most certainly not in the business of
- hanging tickets off themselves, they are too preoccupied with thinking
- about the strategic reversing of the technical ecological collapse of
- VMS mind-share, with a weather eye on their modest achievements, to
- date; however, we do think we were the best new institutional
- innovation in VMS activism, in the year 2012, in establishing the
- foundation for an independent, autonomous, VMS Hobbyist program.
- The best new institutional innovation in VMS activism, in 2014, the
- 31st of July, 2014, to be precise, without a shadow of a doubt, was
- "VMS Software, Incorporated" (VSI):
- https://www.vmssoftware.com/
- Mission Statement:
- "Our mission is to develop, sell, and support innovative and advanced
- releases of OpenVMS, the most secure operating system on the planet. We
- are engaged in this mission with one core motivation: to support and
- enable our customers in running their mission critical applications at
- the legendary uptime levels OpenVMS is known for, at maximum
- performance levels, today and into the future."
- The VLF greatly admire the work of the VSI, however do not hold that
- against them! We sincerely salute their bold enterprise, and long
- overdue initiative - live long and prosper.
- In one of the VMS Anniversary VLF Communiques to comp.os.vms, some time
- in the future, no doubt, we will review and constructively critique
- their operations.
- $!-- VLF::SYS$QIO:[REQUESTS] -----------------------------------------!$
- We welcome the supply to the VLF of commercial OpenVMS software and
- also commercial VAX, AXP, and PDP-11 hardware virtualisation emulators;
- especially, in particular, those that operate on GNU/Linux O/S hosts,
- however emulators that operate on any other O/S platforms, including
- Microsoft Windows, are also most welcome.
- We also warmly welcome the supply of the OpenVMS Operating System and
- the OpenVMS Layered Product source-code; ideally in "self regenerating"
- DECset form; but not limited to that - all source code is most welcome.
- Please refer to the VLF MANiFESTO and the VLF ACtiViSM charter for our
- motivations in requesting such righteous sunshine supply.
- Thank you.
- $!-- VLF::SYS$CONTACT:[DETAiLS] --------------------------------------!$
- These VLF contact vectors are current, as of 25th December 2016:
- IRC: N/A
- Web: N/A
- IM/XMPP: N/A
- Email: mailto:[email protected] (please use OpenPGP/GPG Encryption)
- Public Key: https://www.hushtools.com/hushtools2/index.php
- http://keys.gnupg.net/
- http://pgp.mit.edu/
- Releases: Check the Usenet Binaries Newsgroup: alt.binaries.warez
- Announcements: Check the Usenet Discussion Newsgroup: comp.os.vms
- Manifesto: http://is.gd/VLF_MANiFESTO
- The only reliable way to establish full duplex contact with the VLF is
- by email. We much prefer that all email communication to us be
- encrypted using the OpenPGP (Pretty Good Privacy / GPG (Gnu Privacy
- Guard) encryption standards. We recommend that you generate and use
- custom, bespoke, 4096 bit RSA public key and 4096 bit RSA sub-key
- OpenPGP/GPG public+private key-pairs.
- Be rest assured that if you decide to contact the DELTA:: Node of the
- VMS Liberation Front, the act of contact will not be interpreted by the
- VLF that you approve of our manifesto nor of our methods, nor that you
- wish to join the VLF underground resistance movement. We also welcome
- corrections and refinements to the accuracy, and analytical rigour, of
- our historical understanding of the VMS Operating System.
- In light of the noble Edward Snowden's NSA (National Security Agency) /
- Project PRISM revelations since mid-2013, privacy, anonymity,
- encryption, and plausible deniability, tools have been evolving and
- refining ever more rapidly. You will need to do your own independent
- prudential due diligence in investigating possible tool-sets, however
- the resources that the VLF recommend that you review are a useful place
- to start your explorations from.
- These notes are primarily Microsoft Windows O/S centric; GNU/Linux
- users should be able to take care of themselves; MacOSX users are
- advised to ask for assistance from friends who use either Windows or
- GNU/Linux.
- The OpenPGP website provides an excellent overview of email encryption
- tools for all desktop O/S platforms:
- http://openpgp.org/software/
- One of the simplest ways to establish encrypted OpenPGP/GPG compatible
- email communications is to set up a "web-mail" account that you access
- through your Internet browser and you then implement encrypted email by
- using the "Mailvelope" Internet browser add-on / extension:
- https://www.mailvelope.com/
- The Mailvelope add-on / extension is for Mozilla Firefox based Internet
- Browsers and also for Google Chrome based Internet browsers.
- Refer to the Mailvelope website to find the most up to date list of
- which web-mail providers neatly integrate with Mailvelope, however here
- are four well established ones:
- http://www.gmx.net/ https://mailbox.org/
- https://posteo.de/ http://web.de/
- NOTE: Sadly, the immaculate Lavabit encrypted email service is no
- longer available, due to the noble NSA/PRISM activism of the developer,
- Ladar Levison, in constitutionally challenging his National Security
- Letter, in 2013.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit https://darkmail.info/
- Bear in mind that it is always wise to create such email accounts on
- other than your personal or work computers, and on other than your
- personal or work IP (Internet Protocol) address ranges. Note that it is
- very rare to find a web-mail provider that allows account creation via
- a "Tor-ified Browser", however, many such providers tolerate accessing
- web-mail via a Tor-ified Browser; we will discuss the Tor (The Onion
- Ring) system, later in these notes.
- Always think during any of these processes, whether you are digitally
- finger printing (no pun intended) with your data or meta-data.
- A recommended Internet Browser for the Mailvelope add-in / extension,
- is the SRWare "Iron Browser", which is a privacy oriented, stripped
- down, fork of the Google Chrome open-source code-base:
- About: https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
- Download: https://www.srware.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=21
- For the Windows versions, install the "WebRTC Off" extension for extra
- privacy:
- https://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=10863
- https://www.srware.net/en/webrtc_off.php
- It is important to disable "Web RTC", since it can leak your real IP on
- Windows O/S, even if you are using a VPN (Virtual Private Network)
- Service.
- Some other prudent and judicious extensions for the Iron Browser, can
- be found at the Google Chrome Browser extensions directory:
- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions
- Adblock Plus: Noscript:
- http://adblockplus.org/ https://noscript.net/
- EFF HTTPS Everywhere: EFF Privacy Badger:
- https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
- This is the best way to download an off-line copy of a chrome
- extension, for archival purposes:
- http://chrome-extension-downloader.com/
- These extensions are also available for other Internet Browser
- rendering engine models, such as Mozilla Firefox.
- It would also be prudent to routinely use a VPN (Virtual Private
- Network) Service, because, otherwise, with web-mail, or ordinary email
- using a desktop email client, your IP addresses can be fingered
- (identified), hence, your identity discovered; this is an excellent VPN
- survey:
- https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-anonymous-review-160220/
- Purchase your VPN service subscription using a disposable fixed value
- pre-paid (Mastercard or Visa) debit card, with a plausible synthetic
- identity.
- By the use of a VPN Service, you can obfuscate what your actual IP
- address is, perhaps not from the NSA, however. The use of Mailvelope
- and the Iron Browser in the context of a VPN, is pretty much sufficient
- to establish anonymous email conversations with the VLF, the only other
- protection that you should examine is MAC randomisation, or "spoofing"
- of your network interfaces, for the Windows O/S, these are a couple of
- good MAC spoofing tools:
- Lizard Systems Change MAC Address
- https://lizardsystems.com/change-mac-address/
- Technitium MAC Address Changer
- https://technitium.com/tmac/
- Logically, with prudential due diligence you should test such
- assertions as "pretty much sufficient", in the preceding paragraph!
- Matters of anonymity, privacy, encryption, and plausible deniability,
- are by way of grammatical analogue, the domain of dotting one's i's,
- crossing one's t's and knowing the proper use of apostrophes. ;-)
- Obviously, you can also use desktop email clients, some web-mail hosts
- also allow direct POP, IMAP, and SMTP access (usually all SSL enabled)
- to web-mail accounts, for example: GMX Mail; one recommended pairing is
- the Mozilla Thunderbird email client with the Enigmail OpenPGP/GPG
- add-on:
- Mozilla Thunderbird Email Client
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
- Enigmail OpenPGP/GPG Add-on
- https://www.enigmail.net
- You would need to install "GnuPG" or "GPG4Win" (or "GPGTools" for Apple
- MacOSX) on your system:
- http://www.gnupg.org/ http://www.gpg4win.org/
- https://gpgtools.org/ http://www.jumaros.de/rsoft/index.html
- For Windows users, "Jumaros GPGShell" is also highly recommended as an
- ancillary GPG tool.
- Having established your VPN Service, email address, installed
- Mailvelope in your Internet Browser, created your OpenPGP/GPG
- public+private key-pair, then a further level of IP address obfuscation
- is to use the "Tor Browser Bundle" for accessing your encrypted
- web-mail, which uses the "Tor" system, "Tor" stands for "The Onion
- Router", rather than the recursive acronym "TOR Onion Router", however
- the latter provides insight into the function of the Tor system,
- familiarise yourself comprehensively:
- The Tor Browser Bundle:
- https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
- The Tails Anonymity and Privacy Live Boot disk:
- https://tails.boum.org/
- Bearing all of the above in mind, ideally, pragmatically, what you
- should aim to do is establish a "Tails" anonymity, privacy, and
- encryption, "Live Boot" disk, with encrypted "Persistent Storage"
- enabled, on a high reliability, high speed, SDCard or USB memory stick.
- The Tails live boot disk is designed to execute, hermetically, all of
- it's Internet Traffic via the Tor system. Having created an email
- account, in the manner recommended above, you can then configure an
- email client within Tails and establish the OpenPGP/GPG encryption;
- this will allow you to send and receive encrypted email via the Tor
- system, and be able to persistently store, in encrypted form, all
- received and created information.
- For Microsoft Windows O/S users, "Rufus", is a very useful adjunct for
- "burning" Tails to a SDCard or USB memory stick:
- http://rufus.akeo.ie/
- If you wish to send us large files, then upload them to a Tor-ified
- Browser friendly cyber-locker / file-host, these are some
- recommendations:
- http://rghost.net/ http://datafilehost.com
- http://zippyshare.com http://solidfiles.com
- Of course, uploading via a Tor-ified browser client, on that point, the
- mass-mirroring resource "MirrorCreator", operates properly within a
- Tor-ified Browser:
- https://www.mirrorcreator.com/
- For very large data sets we recommend uploading to the Usenet binaries
- newsgroup:
- alt.binaries.test
- Always upload using SSL tunneling, using a SSL enabled Usenet access
- provider.
- Recommended tools:
- http://www.jbinup.com/ or http://powerpost.free.fr/
- The latter needs be used with Stunnel:
- https://www.stunnel.org/index.html
- Use a nondescript file name and encrypt the archives with a password,
- locate a suitably tolerant public Wi-Fi access point to upload from and
- then securely contact us with the particulars, as detailed previously.
- If you search about you will probably be able to find a fixed value,
- pre-paid, disposable, Visa or Mastercard debit card with which the
- on-line registration process only requires a working e-mail address for
- authentication and not a mobile phone number for SMS authentication;
- generate a plausible synthetic identity.
- Once you have established a plausible synthetic identity and the
- pre-paid debit card, you can then purchase pre-paid SSL enabled Usenet
- Service Provider subscription, whence you can execute the uploads from
- a public-access Wi-Fi portal, using your VPN service and MAC spoofing.
- Please note that credit card OLTP systems usually reject proxied and
- Tor-ified browsers for transactions and therefore for the actual
- purchase we recommend that you use a public Internet portal; Internet
- Cafes that boot fresh O/S images from their Intranet for each and every
- session are a recommended resource.
- By such process disciplines your real identity will remain undisclosed
- and your plausible deniability will be maintained.
- We do not warrant or assert that the methods explicated are totally
- safe and useful with no risk of compromising your anonymity. Please
- consult more knowledgeable resources on the Internet. For example, in
- the generality, consult the writings of Edward Snowden and Bruce
- Schneier, to see what anonymity, privacy, and encryption, tools that
- they recommend:
- https://www.schneier.com/ https://www.schneierfacts.com/
- https://edwardsnowden.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
- Miscellaneous privacy, anonymity, and encryption, resources, all quite
- worthy of one's close attention:
- The Android Guardian Project:
- https://guardianproject.info/apps
- Privacy Tools:
- https://www.privacytools.io/
- FSF (Free Software Foundation) email Self-defense:
- https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/
- EFF (Electronic Frontiers Foundation) Surveilance Self-defence:
- https://ssd.eff.org/en
- FFTF (Fight For The Future) and CFR) Centre For Rights, Privacy Pack:
- https://pack.resetthenet.org/
- EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Centre) Practical Privacy Tools:
- https://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html
- Access Project: Encrypt All The Things:
- http://encryptallthethings.net/
- FPF (Freedom of the Press Foundation) Protect Yourself:
- https://freedom.press/training/
- PRISM Break: Privacy and Anonymity Index:
- http://prism-break.org/
- RISEUP online communication tools for activist groups:
- https://riseup.net/
- BestVPN: The Ultimate Privacy Guide:
- https://www.bestvpn.com/the-ultimate-privacy-guide/
- This is a useful guide, generally speaking, although somewhat dated now:
- Dr Who - Security and Encryption FAQ - Revision 22.6.2
- http://pastebin.com/kNruUa3W
- In conclusion:
- Of course, if you think any of this advice given is technically naive
- and could compromise your anonymity and plausible deniability, then
- please do not hesitate to correct us, via encrypted email (of course),
- to suggest better methods and processes, thank you.
- However, the VLF consider the methods outlined and adumbrated to be a
- useful basis from which to start thinking about secure anonymous
- communication and we think they would be useful for HP whistle-blowers,
- VMS activists, and those gagged by NDAs (Non-disclosure Agreements)
- that see the need or the necessity to let some sunshine in on HP VMS
- policy, and to let some sunshine out, such as the source code for the
- VMS Operating System and the VMS Layered Products.
- YMWV, please do your homework first, you are VMS men, it should not be
- difficult.
- $!-------------------------- damn straight ---------------------------!$
- $ opprobrium/level=kittens/mode=conniptions/input=VLF:/output=NL: !$
- $!--------------------------- enough said ----------------------------!$
- ..: NFO and DIZ v0.9.5.0 BETA - 2016-12-25 - !xD :..
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