Saying 'No' to an Executable Internet

Dylan Knight Rogers writes "Applications are constantly being ported for usage on the Internet - either for a viable escape from expensive software, or because it's often helpful to have an app that you can access from anywhere. Operating systems that run from the Web will be a different story."

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It won't necessarily ruin security.

[CyricZ]

Such a system won't necessarily be insecure. But its level of security will depend heavily on how it is designed and implemented.

It's no different that what we have today. Systems that aren't very well designed and poorly implemented, such as Microsoft Windows 98, are horribly insecure. On the other hand, systems with a solid design and an effective development and testing process will turn out to be very secure (ala OpenBSD).

AKA genes

[StikyPad]

a parasite shown to alter the brain function of rats, inducing them into behavior that benefits the parasite but is suicidal for the rat.

I thought we called those "chromasomes in an XY arrangement."