It will be interesting to see how OSS developers handle a full court press by maleficent hackers. For all talk and criticism about Microsoft's security responses, I don't believe OSS has ever encountered the concentrated, unrelenting targeting Microsoft has to endure. Will OSS have the organization and time to endure what Microsoft has to endure?
On another note... I wonder, at the rate we are going, with millions of full featured operation systems connecting to the internet, if all of these security issues will slowly make the internet useless. Perhaps it is time for a major paradigm change. Perhaps we should do away with idea of full featured operating systems existing on millions of PCs, and get back to the old mainframe idea, with users connecting to a central, secure OS/server using a dumb terminal. After all, a handful of servers are defendable. Millions of fully featured PCs will never be defendable, and will always be a threat to one another.
The internet is fast enough that a rich, powerful GUI interface into such a remote OS/server is feasible. A company, such as Microsoft, IBM, etc., could sell access to a secure OS/Server. I think enough people have a robust internet connection to make this practical.
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It will be interesting to see how OSS developers handle a full court press by maleficent hackers. For all talk and criticism about Microsoft's security responses, I don't believe OSS has ever encountered the concentrated, unrelenting targeting Microsoft has to endure. Will OSS have the organization and time to endure what Microsoft has to endure?
On another note...
I wonder, at the rate we are going, with millions of full featured operation systems connecting to the internet, if all of these security issues will slowly make the internet useless. Perhaps it is time for a major paradigm change. Perhaps we should do away with idea of full featured operating systems existing on millions of PCs, and get back to the old mainframe idea, with users connecting to a central, secure OS/server using a dumb terminal. After all, a handful of servers are defendable. Millions of fully featured PCs will never be defendable, and will always be a threat to one another.
The internet is fast enough that a rich, powerful GUI interface into such a remote OS/server is feasible. A company, such as Microsoft, IBM, etc., could sell access to a secure OS/Server. I think enough people have a robust internet connection to make this practical.
I wonder if anyone has patented the idea of using dummy email addresses to avoid spam.