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Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows

Posted by timothy on from the sure-if-it's-powered-off-and-ground-into-dust dept.

New submitter Neavey writes: Sounds too good to be true, but Morphisec, an Israeli startup, claims to have built an unhackable version of Windows. Its not yet publicly available, a red flag if ever I saw one, but internal testing has had a 100% success rate: "In a statement for BI, Dudu Mimran, the co-founder of the company, describes this new OS version as the Windows that 'Microsoft should be doing,' explaining that, while the platform was initially designed for government use, it can be actually installed by any enterprise that wants to make sure that no hack is possible. Basically, this operating can block any zero-day attack, the founder says, thanks to the operating system randomizing all memory, which means that the hacker cannot target the computer memory and compromise the data stored on the drives." What things memory randomization does not fix, left as an exercise for the reader.

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  1. Oh boy by NotDrWho · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope everyone at that company is prepared for a long week.

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    1. Re:Oh boy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I hope everyone at that company is prepared for a long week.

      I wouldn't presume they last that long. An unhackable version of Windows... Is it April 1st on the Hebrew calendar?

    2. Re:Oh boy by Wrexs0ul · · Score: 4, Funny

      Might not take a week. I hear one of their techs just met a rather pleasant prince from Nigeria...

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    3. Re:Oh boy by Penguinisto · · Score: 5, Funny

      I hope everyone at that company is prepared for a long week.

      Why? All they did was rip out all the networking parts of that particular Windows box. Oh, and they also removed the USB drivers, the serial ports... then they sealed it in a welded metal box, then set that box in the middle of a concrete block 1m x 1m x 1m, with only the power cable and a couple of water cooling pipes sticking out. It's completely unhackable now.

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    4. Re:Oh boy by currently_awake · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, you could still modulate the data bus using microwaves. Now if you leave out the power cable, that's unhackable.

    5. Re:Oh boy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Because the code is on the unhackable Windows PC. They only get back some random binary files when they try to copy it.

  2. I believe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is being offered to the mullahs on a flashkey.

  3. Other products by puddingebola · · Score: 5, Funny

    You may want to take a look at some of this company's other products, including flying serum and invisibility powder.

    1. Re:Other products by rogoshen1 · · Score: 3, Funny

      well in reality the invisibility powder is really just ground up lye, and when thrown into the eyes of someone else, it blinds them, thus rendering you invisible to that person.

      But it does work.

  4. It's easy to make it unhackable by taustin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just remove all input and output capabilities, and the power supply. Most secure computer in the world.

    1. Re:It's easy to make it unhackable by singularity · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think people are missing this company's solution.

      The machine boots to Windows, and then this company's product randomizes everything in RAM. Even Windows has no idea where anything is in memory anymore. Every single bit is in a completely random location, with no relation to the bits it was next to previously.

      Granted, the machine crashes at this point, but it has successfully booted and been rendered unhackable.

      For long-term security, their follow-up product will randomize all data on a hard drive. It is completely un-hackable, even with physical access. Of course the data is also irretrievable, but there are prices to security.

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    2. Re:It's easy to make it unhackable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      There is a non-zero chance that those random bits result in having Windows 1.0 or DR-DOS.

  5. My code is 100% working by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    According to my own internal testing, of which i've done none.

  6. And in other news, DefCon and BlackHat paused... by Assmasher · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...for approximately 15 minutes to hack the unhackable today and then resumed normal business with smirking faces all around...

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  7. Re:This has been around forever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not going to help with logical programming errors.

    It is literally already implemented in every version of Windows since Vista.

    Windows has had logical programming errors before Vista.

  8. I think you just described by rsilvergun · · Score: 3, Funny

    My Commodore 64.

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  9. Re:It worked for the Titanic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are correct, nobody ever hacked the Titanic.