You Americans keep amazing me...
First a giant trial about Microsoft's monopoly and then they simply grant a company a monopoly for several years?? Free market anyone? What about anti-trust laws?
BTW, I don't think auctioning it off to the highest bidder would solve anything; it seems to me that VeriSign has lots of cash and other smaller companies simply can't compete with that.
Endrin (still glad to live in Europe, but who knows for how long...)
A same sort of program but not limited to browsers is Sensiva. You can define a set of commands for each application. It works pretty good but on my win2k machine it crashed after a couple of days...
'unskilled' is a right word, even better might be 'unknowing'
I am a CS student (yes, same university as the guys behind AES-Rijndael;) and currently I'm following a course on the development of secure software. Now I might say I know more-than-average about computers and I have some experience with a real-life company computer system but when the professor presented us a list of the most frequent security issues and a bunch of real world exploits the ease with which such an possible threat is introduced in the code made me feel like a 10-year old kiddie fooling around with the pc.
Fact is that a LOT of the sysadmins out there have no clou about security and the stunning amount of threats that exist in the software under their control, just waiting to be discovered and exploited. It should be mandatory in every decent computer related education to attend a course about security in software, not only for sysadmins but for software developers as well.
Knowledge == power!
...just my 0.02EUR...
and oh BTW: the professors main advice on how to avoid the majority of threats: use Java!:)
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You Americans keep amazing me...
First a giant trial about Microsoft's monopoly and then they simply grant a company a monopoly for several years?? Free market anyone? What about anti-trust laws?
BTW, I don't think auctioning it off to the highest bidder would solve anything; it seems to me that VeriSign has lots of cash and other smaller companies simply can't compete with that.
Endrin (still glad to live in Europe, but who knows for how long...)
A same sort of program but not limited to browsers is Sensiva. You can define a set of commands for each application. It works pretty good but on my win2k machine it crashed after a couple of days...
My guess is that the /. staff is rolling over the floor laughing ...yaddayaddayadda because of the replies on their April posts...
'unskilled' is a right word, even better might be 'unknowing' ;) and currently I'm following a course on the development of secure software. Now I might say I know more-than-average about computers and I have some experience with a real-life company computer system but when the professor presented us a list of the most frequent security issues and a bunch of real world exploits the ease with which such an possible threat is introduced in the code made me feel like a 10-year old kiddie fooling around with the pc.
...just my 0.02EUR... :)
I am a CS student (yes, same university as the guys behind AES-Rijndael
Fact is that a LOT of the sysadmins out there have no clou about security and the stunning amount of threats that exist in the software under their control, just waiting to be discovered and exploited. It should be mandatory in every decent computer related education to attend a course about security in software, not only for sysadmins but for software developers as well.
Knowledge == power!
and oh BTW: the professors main advice on how to avoid the majority of threats: use Java!