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RE: [ISN] How To Save The Internet
From: "David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:45:49 -0800
Jason Coombs [mailto:jasonc () science org] writes: <snip>
... the core problem with computer security is that our CPUs make no effort to restrict the execution of machine code to that very small subset of all possible machine code which constitutes the code that the owner of the CPU desires it to run.
<snip>
If anyone really cared about solving this core security problem with computing today, it would be solved in just a few months.
Just one of the myriad of security issues that we're grappling with are the various rights of the owner of the CPU, the *operator* of the CPU, and the owner of the *data*, each of whom may have a more or less legitimate say in what code actually gets executed. Far too many folks have already "solved" this problem incorrectly for me to believe that the "just a few months" solution you envisage will actually be correct. David Gillett
Current thread:
- Re: [ISN] How To Save The Internet Jason Coombs (Mar 21)
- RE: [ISN] How To Save The Internet David Gillett (Mar 22)
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- Re: [ISN] How To Save The Internet Jason Coombs (Mar 22)
- Re: [ISN] How To Save The Internet Thor (Hammer of God) (Mar 23)
- RE: [ISN] How To Save The Internet Arndt . WA (Mar 23)
- Re: [ISN] How To Save The Internet Derek Martin (Mar 23)