Arnold Reinhold quoted a site containing rumors about upcoming security
features in Mac OS 8.7:
> The security features controlling all of this will be very similar to
>those used in OS X and are to be considered extremely secure. No external
>testing has been applied yet, but Apple sources suggested that the intent
>is to makethese competitive with Military-level secure OS's like OpenBSD.
I suppose this is a "Military-level secure OS" the same way Windows-NT is
-- it provides "C2" per user discretionary access control and audit that
can stand up to some third party testing. But it's certainly not good
enough for even a cheap multilevel guard implementation if it's compared to
vanilla OpenBSD.
> One very interesting note on technology demonstrated under Sonata at
>WWDC: users will be able to log into their computers by voiceprint
>indentification. This technology is considered very reliable, is not easily
>faked by recordings and such, and can be backed up with a normal text
>password if the user is sick, loses their voice, etc.
This is probably good enough for a typical office as long as Furbies aren't
good enough repeaters to trick them. Of course, if people never use their
passwords then they won't have them memorized, and won't be able to use
this "back up" authentication strategy. (I know, they can safely hide the
password on a yellow stickie under the mouse pad -- the modern equivalent
of the key under the doormat, eh?).
Rick.
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