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IEEE to Standardize OS Security Components
aster_ken writes "The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers has started work on a standard for securing operating systems, as a recognition that software security is 'limited by the operating systems that underpin them', the organization said yesterday. The standard, dubbed IEEE P2200, will address external threats and intrinsic flaws arising from software design and engineering practices."
Microsoft creates own standards beaurou
Deems Windows perfect, others not
Never mind a secure OS, I think these electronic engineers sound like very useful devices. Is there a review of one anywhere? How much do they cost? Do they run Linux?
It has no network adapter (modem or otherwise) and no input devices (as in all the ports ps/2 com et cetra have been melted shut or broken off) It has no hard drive, just rom, and It's in a chest rigged to explode somewhere at the bottom of the north atlantic! I extend an invite to all the hackers/crackers to try to by pass it!
--fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage
I beg to differ. IEEE won't take them down, but it will bug them a bit. It is somewhat like MS being a rampaging bear, Linux being a horde of bunny-rabbits, and IEEE being a bunch of thorny trees.
Linux hits the trees less, but it irritates the bear and prevents it from rears up. Eventually, after the Linux bunnies all mate like crazy, one bunny rabbit is born that is somewhat like the bunny in Monty Python's The Search for the Holy Grail. The point here is to mate Linux distros with each other until the perfect bunny emerges.