From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: some #s In-Reply-To: <200306052241.h55Mf9521982@augusta.math.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 18:06:04 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c5a82520-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Dan Cross wrote: > Which, as I stated, is irrelevant since we're talking about Plan 9. Which has yet to go through a professional level vetting. About the best that can be said for it was what was published in "Maximum Security". > Which programmers are those? The OS programmers, or the application > programmers? My whole point was that what the application programmers > did was irrelevant. Really? Talk to some crypto programmers some time. I think they'd disagree with you a great deal on that one. The reality is that memory leakage via apps -is- a major concern for real world security issues. OS'es don't have the best record in that regard either. I'd suggest arXiv or SiteSeer as a start. You can also take a look at the NSA version of Linux. -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------