It would also be quite interesting to see how much the russians benefited from Signals Intelligence. It seems to me that they had the biggest burden in fighting nazi germany...
I agree that without Enigma Britian might have been invaded, but would that have meant that Hitler would have won ?
The yanks were already designing intercontinental bombers for their nukes, in case Britain would fall.
Although this is mainly a bio of Turing and his contribution to breaking german codes, it is significant for the history of computers.
Compared to german and american "competitors", he was clearly far ahead. Turing was instrumental both to the theory and the implementation of binary electronic computers. Therefore his bio is so important.
War is still the father of of technological advancement !
Although others worked on analog and decimal computers (e.g. Zuse in Germany), Turing was clearly far ahead of all other early "computer scientists". For example, he recognized that binary systems are more efficient than decimal.
Also, his mathematical work is now very important for all of computer science and mathematics.
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It is not just ACLs, just like with java, every system call can be intercepted and checked by what is called "SecurityManager" in java.
Just code your own SecurityManager for SE Linux !
M$ and SUN did not buy in that concept, and so the NSA took the Guerilla tactic of taking matters in their own hands. That is the rationale behind it.
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Maybe the NSA finally recognized that concrete engineering is required to harden our high-tech infrastructures. We should demand more from them. For example, automatic tools for source code flaw analysis, or at least that they provide that as service for the analysis of critical internet infrastructure, such as routers,switches and DNS servers.
Can somebody explain the difference of this to
the Sandbox concept of Java or Janus ?
(http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/janus/)
Wouldn't it be better to have a good syscall-interception interface like Solaris ?
Then there could be competing implementations for the "SecurityManager" (Java Terminology)
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Just got that from my UHF Satcom receiver:
http://geocities.com/fgerlach.geo/jspm2001.html
It would also be quite interesting to see how much the russians benefited from Signals Intelligence. It seems to me that they had the biggest burden in fighting nazi germany...
I agree that without Enigma Britian might have been invaded, but would that have meant that Hitler would have won ? The yanks were already designing intercontinental bombers for their nukes, in case Britain would fall.
http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/bio/part5.html
Although this is mainly a bio of Turing and his contribution to breaking german codes, it is significant for the history of computers. Compared to german and american "competitors", he was clearly far ahead. Turing was instrumental both to the theory and the implementation of binary electronic computers. Therefore his bio is so important. War is still the father of of technological advancement !
Although others worked on analog and decimal computers (e.g. Zuse in Germany), Turing was clearly far ahead of all other early "computer scientists". For example, he recognized that binary systems are more efficient than decimal. Also, his mathematical work is now very important for all of computer science and mathematics.
It is not just ACLs, just like with java, every system call can be intercepted and checked by what is called "SecurityManager" in java. Just code your own SecurityManager for SE Linux ! M$ and SUN did not buy in that concept, and so the NSA took the Guerilla tactic of taking matters in their own hands. That is the rationale behind it.
Maybe the NSA finally recognized that concrete engineering is required to harden our high-tech infrastructures. We should demand more from them. For example, automatic tools for source code flaw analysis, or at least that they provide that as service for the analysis of critical internet infrastructure, such as routers,switches and DNS servers.
Can somebody explain the difference of this to the Sandbox concept of Java or Janus ? (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/janus/) Wouldn't it be better to have a good syscall-interception interface like Solaris ? Then there could be competing implementations for the "SecurityManager" (Java Terminology)