Re: Computer health certificate plan indistinguishable from Denial Of Service attack.

2010-10-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 06/10/10 Ray Dillinger said: It is hard to count the number of untestable and/or flat out wrong assumptions built into this idea, and harder still to enumerate all the ways it could go wrong. My wife runs Clamwin AV on her windows XP box and it's always complaining that she doesn't have

Re: Computer health certificate plan indistinguishable from Denial Of Service attack.

2010-10-07 Thread Kent Yoder
I'd love to know how they plan to validate my Linux boxes. OpenPTS [1] + TrouSerS [2] + Grub-IMA [3] + IMA [4] ;-) Kent [1] http://openpts.sourceforge.jp/ [2] http://trousers.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://sourceforge.jp/projects/openpts/wiki/GRUB-IMA [4] http://linux-ima.sourceforge.net/

Computer health certificate plan indistinguishable from Denial Of Service attack.

2010-10-06 Thread Ray Dillinger
Microsoft is sending up a test balloon on a plan to 'quarantine' computers from accessing the Internet unless they produce a 'health certificate' to ensure that software patches are applied, a firewall is installed and configured correctly, an antivirus program with current signatures is