The Next 50 Years of Computer Security

wbglinks writes "An informative interview with Linux guru Alan Cox, with an emphasis on Linux and security. Alan will be the keynote speaker at EuroOSCON this October." From the article: "It is beginning to improve, but at the moment computer security is rather basic and mostly reactive. Systems fail absolutely rather than degrade. We are still in a world where an attack like the slammer worm combined with a PC BIOS eraser or disk locking tool could wipe out half the PCs exposed to the internet in a few hours. In a sense we are fortunate that most attackers want to control and use systems they attack rather than destroy them."

Comments

where is the freebsd virus?

[RouterSlayer]

Which reminds me,
where the hell is that freebsd virus?

The one that would infect windows systems, and once infected reformat the drive and install freebsd?

I've always wanted to actually see this thing...
so where is it? ;)