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- From: eronald@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Edmund Ronald)
- Subject: Future OS virus immunity.
- Message-ID: <eronald.726016050@ruble>
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- Organization: Technical University of Vienna
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:07:30 GMT
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- Since I posted a couple of days ago, regarding the directions of research
- to make future systems virus immune, there have been a series of interesting,
- albeit off-track reactions.
- Several people remarked that virues on Unix machines were "impossible"
- because of the access control separating accounts. No one bothered to
- remember that the past ten years have proven Unix system security to be an
- oxymoron, a topic that keeps graduate students entertained nights. In fact,
- if I may venture some sarcasm, if administrators and vendors did not make
- such exagerated claims about Unix security, then there would probably be
- fewer attacks :)
-
- Also, I do not care particularly about Unix, a 25 year old system with
- lots of historical flaws -sorry, features :)
- I was interested in FUTURE systems: How might these be rendered "resistant
- by design"?
-
- Edmund
- -- eronald@cnam.cnam.fr
-
- PS. I personnally use a NeXT computer, a Unix box with a wysiwyg GUI built
- on top of a Display Postscript server that handles screen and keyboard, and
- mouse. Mail on these can contain embedded Postscript, which is executed at
- read-time by the server. Need I say more about how un-security can be buit
- into a system?
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