Re: whitehouse cyber strategy review

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:51:25PM -0500, Larry Seltzer wrote:
> > > Don't run Windows, morons.
>
> Most of us have wondered for years what it would take for the malware
> community to pay attention to non-Windows platforms. This would do it.

Oh, no doubt.  But they will find it considerably more difficult to
go up against people like Cox and de Raadt, who actually fix problems
in a timely manner, rather than denying them in press releases and
quietly releasing broken patches weeks or months or years later.

Of course, this is only a first step, but it would in one sweeping blow
eliminate the obviously-weakest component.  Lather, rinse, repeat...
because the way to secure massive operations is not by trying to
protect inferior components, it's by eliminating them.

And equally of course, this will never happen, because it would require
actual thinking and innovation rather than mere reapplication of the
same time-worn techniques that have already failed so predictably.

---Rsk
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