On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:18, Nathan Cook wrote: > http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=7980 > > Found this article, the results are interesting...? > > This could be a bad thing for Linux in general though couldn't it? No software running on a current small computer is ever secure, because while they have the compute power many times that of the mainframe of yore, they do not have the security features which every big-iron machine had as a matter of course.
Neither your ubiquitous *86* machines nor, to my knowledge, any other computer chipset found in the current crop of personal machines is able to produce a hardware segfault on array bound errors or, stack protection errors, i.e. underflow, overflow or execution of code on the stack. Until those problems are addressed by the chipset makers we will continue to have a continuum of crim-ware spewing over the 'Net. As far as computer security nothing of any substance will happen until the governments of the world force the issue with the chip makers. And they won't because those with any power in the world are all either corrupt or totally lacking in nous about science and technology. Just accept and get used to it. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
