If you scan through the California report, it's interesting to note that one of the "possible approaches to the problem of malicious software" which they list is security through obscurity (bottom of page, section titled 'Obscurity/complexity').
They speak of how "voting software may be kept secret prior to the election" so that "potential authors of attack software may not have enough time to develop and distribute it during the election window".
I'm not sure I'd count on that. Really motivated hackers/crackers can come up with stuff pretty darn quick.
Does anybody know if the OpenBSD folks plan to have their product boxed up and sold off the shelf in local bookstores, like RedHat, Caldera, and many of the other Linux/BSD distributors are doing?
I'd be interested in knowing if that is being considered. And, if so, what the timeframe on it is.
This would be cool! I've ben working on IBM mainframes for five and a half years now - under VM, MVS, and OS390 operating systems.
It would be interesting if IBM took a spare mainframe, loaded Linux up on it, and connected it to the web for the OSS community to play with, experiment with, and tweak. I wonder what kind of performance scores Linux would get as compared to OS390 or IBM's other mainframe OSs.
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If you scan through the California report, it's interesting to note that one of the "possible approaches to the problem of malicious software" which they list is security through obscurity (bottom of page, section titled 'Obscurity/complexity').
They speak of how "voting software may be kept secret prior to the election" so that "potential authors of attack software may not have enough time to develop and distribute it during the election window".
I'm not sure I'd count on that. Really motivated hackers/crackers can come up with stuff pretty darn quick.
Does anybody know if the OpenBSD folks plan to have their product boxed up and sold off the shelf in local bookstores, like RedHat, Caldera, and many of the other Linux/BSD distributors are doing?
I'd be interested in knowing if that is being considered. And, if so, what the timeframe on it is.
This would be cool! I've ben working on IBM mainframes for five and a half years now - under VM, MVS, and OS390 operating systems.
It would be interesting if IBM took a spare mainframe, loaded Linux up on it, and connected it to the web for the OSS community to play with, experiment with, and tweak. I wonder what kind of performance scores Linux would get as compared to OS390 or IBM's other mainframe OSs.