On 03/05/14 10:08, [email protected] wrote: > Anybody have any thoughts on how to achieve this? > > Thanks. > > O.D.
Wrong people. That would be Linux. Probably wrong time. That would be about ten years ago. I hope by 2020, people will maybe realize that being the fastest is far from the most important quality -- perhaps people will realize that security is very very critical in 95% of all computer applications... something the OpenBSD project will have been pushing for 25 years by then. Something like 13 years ago, a few kids sat in the parking lot of a Lowe's store (a large US home improvement store chain), using their idiotic wireless network to get into the store's network, and then to the corporate network. Public reaction: "Evil hackers!"...cost Lowes virtually nothing in damages or public relations (though they have NEVER got a dime of my business since). Last year, Target (a large general products store chain in the US, probably elsewhere) discovered someone had used their bad security to skim off millions of credit card records...and saw customers stay away in huge quantities. Customers are starting to recognize that it isn't just the bad guys -- if you don't implement proper security, you are as much to blame as those that exploit your bad design. Raw computer power continues to increase. It would be nice to stop counting stupid benchmarks and start looking at "are we keeping our data and the data our customers entrust to us safe"? (not to say there aren't places where OpenBSD's performance could be increased, but the idea of taking an OS oriented to security and claiming you want to make it the "fastest" is quite missing the point) Nick.
