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Antivirus Firm Kaspersky Launches Its Own Hackproof OS, Based On Microkernel (fossbytes.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the nothing-but-the-basics dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fossbytes: Kaspersky Lab, a Russian cybersecurity and antivirus company, has announced their new operating system which was in development for the last 14 years. Dubbed as Kaspersky OS, it has made its debut on a Kraftway Layer 3 Switch. Not many details have been revealed by the CEO Eugene Kaspersky in his blog post. The GUI-less OS -- as it appears in the image -- has been designed from scratch and Eugene said it doesn't have "even the slightest smell of Linux." He actually tagged "Kaspersky OS being non-Linux" as one of the three main distinctive features he mentioned. The other two features he briefly described are rather fascinating. The first feature is that the Kaspersky OS is based on microkernel architecture, which basically means using the minimum amount of ingredients to bake your own operating system. The OS can be custom-designed as per requirements by using different modification blocks. The second distinctive feature is the inbuilt security system which can control application behavior and OS modules. It touts Kaspersky OS as practically unhackable, unless a cyber-baddie has a quantum computer -- which will be required to crack the digital signature of the platform -- at his disposal.

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  1. Reports of it being hacked in 5...4...3... by Moheeheeko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nothing is Hackproof, the internet always finds a way.

    1. Re:Reports of it being hacked in 5...4...3... by The-Ixian · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Reports of MS claiming patent infringement of the kernel in 5....4...3...

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  2. How is it licensed? by subk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't see any mention of the source code being available, and if that turns out to be the case, I wouldn't touch this "secure OS" with a ten foot pole. Who says it's secure? They do? And I'm supposed to just believe it?

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  3. Does this guy know what a microkernel is? by kamakazi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you read TFA this guys says:

    "The first feature is that the Kaspersky OS is based on microkernel architecture, which basically means using the minimum amount of ingredients to bake your own operating system. The OS can be custom-designed as per requirements by using different modification blocks. This is similar to what Cyanogen Inc. has implemented in the module-based form of Cyanogen Modular OS for smartphones."

    Unless I have missed something Cyanogen's OS is still using a normal monolithic kernel. Actually this guys description would pretty well include normal module loading and unloading in the linux OS. Why do people who don't understand things try to explain them by comparing them to other things they probably also don't understand?

    But then I read Fossbytes 'about us' page and realized that they are just another aggregator running out of Delhi, and their biggest claim to fame is 300,000 followers on social media. Can't we at least get a link to the horse's mouth like
      https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2...
    instead of re-aggregating an poorly written per-aggregated mention of the news?

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