Re: [BLACKBOX] Seasons Greetings from Linuxland

From: [at]} <Wojtek>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:39:20 -0500

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Alexander:

   the Oberon System is cooperative by design. The Oberon System book
says that the e-mail and print server will be locked in a safe room
and it will provide security. It is a an academic design where nobody is
trying to inflict any harm.

Is the Linux design any better than this, with all the anti-hacker
efforts? Yes, of course, but... But it takes one guy with a rewriteable
CD to compromise the secure solutions. (You followed the recent news, did
not you?) So much for the software safety. The locked room is still
needed.

My point was not the security in the above sense, but the design of the
kernel, where one is casting everything which looks 32-bit into unsigned
long.

W.

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Alexander Iljin wrote:

> Hello!
>
> DGD> W,
> DGD> Doesn't that give inspiration to some young active
> DGD> Oberon enthusiast to dig deep into that code and
> DGD> replace the kernel with true Oberon-2?
>
> DGD> Just a pipe dream.
>
> A you serious, guys? OS Oberon system is so insecure it does not
> have a chance against the youngest of hackers. Zero security.
> It's brittle. The slightest sidestep from the compiler (e.g. using
> the SYSTEM module) and the whole thing will fall apart either
> immediately or at a random point in the future.
> It brings a whole new meaning to the words "single-user
> workstation": you would not break you own workstation, would you?
> That's the security model of that OS. So much for safety.
>
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