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Wrong way to go about solving the problem.
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| Windows will never be secure.
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| What’s particularly dumb about this is that the NSA has already bee involved
| in the development of SELinux, the kernel of which is now part of most Linux
| distributions. It’s already been rated at a higher level in their “Trusted
| Computer Systems Evaluation Criteria” (the “orange book”) than any version of
| Windows has.
|
| Frankly, I don’t get what the justification for trying to get a secure
| version of Windows is. They should just dump it and use one of the
| SELinux-based systems.
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http://www.omninerd.com/comments/23641
Related:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
What spooks Microsoft's chief security advisor
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| Speaking at the Boston SecureWorld conference Wednesday, the 19-year
| Microsoft veteran whose job includes protecting enterprises, developers and
| Microsoft itself said there actually is plenty of good news on the security
| front. For example, his outfit scans a half million devices (with customer
| permission) per month and in the first half of last year saw the first
| period-over-period decline in new vulnerabilities disclosed across Microsoft
| and non-Microsoft software since 2003.
|
| However, 3,400 new vulnerabilities were discovered and “it’s still a big
| number,” Arsenault says. “So if vulnerability rates are down, where are
| they?”
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032608-microsoft-security-concerns.html
With Vista breached, Linux unbeaten in hacking contest
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| The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on
| the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that
| remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer
| hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/032908-with-vista-breached-linux-unbeaten.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
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