Re: Microsoft announce most secure OS on the planet

[Dragos Ruiu <dr () kyx net>]

On 20-Apr-09, at 2:35 PM, Gregory Hicks wrote:

> > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:33:07 +0300
> > From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
> >
> > Larry Seltzer wrote:
> > > Facinating. Think of how secure DOS and CP/M are by this standard.
> >
> > They would be secure, very secure.
> >
> > They may not necessarily be stable or stand up to a targeted attack
> > which knows what they are running, but generally, they'd be the most
> > secure machines on the Internet.
>
> If they could even GET on the Internet.  (Did/Do they have a TCP
> Stack?  I don't think they did...  But I could be wrong...)


KA9Q was used to do TCP over packet radio for CP/M machines AFAIR.
I had left behind the z80 for 80286 machines and uucp by then so I  
never used it.

And frankly I don't think their obscurity would provide much security  
- even older lame exploits would work against that immature code, and  
no MMU... well...

cheers,
--dr

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