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Nick Roberts wrote:
> AdaOS /will/ be watertight, and that /will/ obviate the need for a firewall.

I have utmost confidence that AdaOS people are actually doing
appropriate "engineering."

Remember all the claims of Java security?
And yet it's history shows that the only security
Java has is against threats the developers thought
of along the way.

AdaOS will be the same.  The difference will be
(I hope) that the Java people obviously didn't
think hard enough about that.

-- 
Wes Groleau

    In any formula, constants (especially those obtained
    from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.