Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-11-02 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
And proprietary software, like WinDose, that uses bodged standards is the root cause of this insecurity. Here you can read about another, possibly more serious, danger posed by proprietary systems: http://www.physorg.com/news144343006.html Dhu On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:54:27 +0800 mak maxie <

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-11-02 Thread mak maxie
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Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-24 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Thu, 10/23/08, mak maxie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: mak maxie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD. >> To: m

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-24 Thread Edd Barrett
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:54 AM, mak maxie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 > > Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. You forgot to attach your patch to implement this "feature".

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-24 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 07:29:52AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > mak maxie wrote: > > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 > > > > Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. > > Ah, so that's why Windows has proven so resistant to spyware >

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Brian
--- On Thu, 10/23/08, mak maxie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: mak maxie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD. > To: misc@openbsd.org > Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 3:54 AM > http://www.computerworld.co

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Breen Ouellette
Obviously someone made a mistake running that story, as April 1st is still over half a year away. Breeno mak maxie wrote: > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 > > Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. > _

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Stuart VanZee
To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, > including OpenBSD. > > > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 > > Microsoft Windows is the only opera

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM, mak maxie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 > > Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. Uhm WRONG, my embedded Linux distro's that I build for my clients only run signed bi

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Bennett
If anyone is concerned about their binaries not being signed, please burn a CD with your binaries contained. Send it to me. I will then sign your CD (they make felt markers just for these tasks) and send it back to you!! Ted Unangst wrote: The awesome power of the gmail spam filter had kept

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bwahahahahahahahahaah that was awesome! > > signed binaries, that made my day. > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:54:27PM +0800, mak maxie wrote: > > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 > > > > Microsoft Windows is the only opera

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Marco Peereboom
bwahahahahahahahahaah that was awesome! signed binaries, that made my day. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:54:27PM +0800, mak maxie wrote: > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 > > Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. > __

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Fergus Wilde
mak maxie wrote: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msn.com.h Ah, the first troll of winter! Must

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Terry
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:54:27PM +0800, mak maxie wrote: > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 > > Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. > _ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread mak maxie
RTFA. b9^b: > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:21:26 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD. > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; misc@openbsd.org >

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mak maxie wrote: >> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 >> >> Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. > > wow, that's a really good point. i think i'm going to

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
mak maxie wrote: > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 > > Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. > _ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://msn.com.hk > > wow, that's a really g

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Nick Holland
mak maxie wrote: > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 > > Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. Ah, so that's why Windows has proven so resistant to spyware and malware! I've always wondered! That's evidence of a Slow News Day. Obv

Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread mak maxie
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msn.com.hk