Re: [Full-Disclosure] Friendly and secure desktop operating system

[Jimmy Mitchener <jman5000@pacbell.net>]

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 16:00, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> For a while I've been wondering if it's possible to create an operating
> system that would allow "stupid" users to easily do whatever they want,
> but still prevent viruses and other malware from doing any harm.
> 
> Today I finally spent a few minutes thinking about it and then wrote
> some of the thoughts down:
> http://iki.fi/tss/security/friendly-secure-os.html
> 
> I'd like to hear comments about it. I hope it's easily enough
> understandable, it's really just intended to give some larger ideas and
> let you figure out the details.
> 
> I have no doubts that someone else hasn't had similiar thoughts before.
> If there's any similiar papers or books, I'd like to hear about them.
> 
> Also note that I believe it would be possible to implement this in
> relatively short time on top of some existing UNIX system and maybe KDE
> or GNOME as the user interface. So I wouldn't say it's just a nice
> dream.

who is to be the one auditing the (what is it now?) 1.5 MILLION lines of
code in KDE to make sure IT is secure? Gnome and KDE are massive
application suites, who is to say they are secure?

This is also not a thread for FULL DISCLOSURE!!!! How many times to
people have to point that out?


Jimmy Mitchener
<mvhs.net/~jmitchener>

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