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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 10 2012 @ 08:48 AM EDT |
If you can call "hoping that your virus scanner catches malware and doesn't
get pwn'ed" actually owning the computer in the first place. (Not that I
don't think the cloud is not a huge hazard, as discussed above)
That is the cloud itself is a response to high ownership costs of computing
systems, because all kinds of experts are needed to run them securely.
I point out that even Groklaw is hosted on a hosting service, and either PJ and
Mark know some esoterica, or they are paying someone to know quite a bit of it
to keep Groklaw running.
Open source works as well as it does because the general attitude taken is that
if the code isn't right, time to fix it, thus closing off many dangerous
behaviors. But this is a piecemeal approach.
I repeat my call: It's time to re-write the OS and re-think the security model
so that the OS itself detects and reports to the owner potentially dangerous
activity before it is allowed to proceed. The fundamental entity that must be
secured against is not the user, it is the program, which inevitably grows too
large to completely comprehend or inspect.
(Christenson)
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