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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."
Are you truthfully denying that OpenBSD is more secure that Microsoft Windows? I would seriously hope not.
It's important to take a look at their two development models. OpenBSD puts a massive focus on security. It's paramount to them. Their coding practices are one of the main benefits, which helps to ensure that insecure code often isn't written, and that it does't enter their source tree if it is written. Not only that, but their audits help to ensure the high quality of their code. It also helps that they audit external software that is widely used, such as Apache. Overall, proper design and a good implementation process lead to secure software.
Anyone designing a networkable operating system needs to adopt a similar development process, else risk the creation of an insecure operating system.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
Sure, that is my point exactly. The spelling errors are due in part that I type at 89 wpm. Excuse me, but I did not know that every person who reads Slashdot is an English instructor.