Re: Texas Bank Dumps Antivirus for Whitelisting

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:46:24 -0400
From:                   Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>

> Wrong answer.  The correct answer is to recognize that any operating
> system which requires anti-virus software is fundamentally, deeply
> broken and to either (a) fix it (b) get it fixed or (c) dump it.

Even better, let's dump von Neumann architecture, go back to Harvard 
architecture, and avoid viruses altogether ...

Sorry, but I remember the late 80s when everybody was saying that once we got 
some security (mainframe-type, of course) into desktop operating systems viruses 
would be a thing of the past.  They aren't, obviously.  As long as data can be 
executed, and programs can be treated as data, viruses will be inherently possible.

(And that's just viruses.  The techie version of getting rid of a [favourite dumb-
person epithet] by giving them a card with "Turn over" written on both sides is to 
tell someone to come up with a technical solution to trojans ...)

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