From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40CEE1BC.4000508@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada BIND was: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <40b9c99e$0$268$edfadb0f@dread16.news.tele.dk> <1086715817.122983@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1086733411.736049@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3Auxc.11998$XY6.1296622@read2.cgocable.net> <40C85035.4020706@noplace.com> <40CA0032.3010103@noplace.com> <40CAF0E1.4000904@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:47:49 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.23.116 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1087300069 209.165.23.116 (Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:47:49 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:47:49 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1500 Date: 2004-06-15T11:47:49+00:00 List-Id: Keep in mind that years ago when Unix was (ill?)conceived that it was not intended to be a high-security system. It was intended to provide enough security that a small development team using it could work together without hosing each other up. It wasn't designed to thwart all possible attacks by malicious intruders. Hence, additional security measures have, over time, continued to be piled on it to try to make it do something it wasn't intended to do. (A little like putting a GUI on top of MS DOS and trying to make it multitask.) If what is wanted is a true high security OS, then it almost sounds like it would be better to start building one that had those concepts built in from the start. It could be a good market for Ada to address. MDC Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > > If I were contracted to provide a safe/secure *NIX solution to > a university, I'd have some headscrating to do. This is because > Linux's root privilege is so frequently obtained by unprivileged > users. Other *NIX's have problems in this area too, though each > brand has its differing levels of security. None are immune > from what I can see. -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================