Re: New Ada compiler for .NET

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Marin David Condic <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org> wrote:

: Note the amount of damage that has been caused in the past by cyberpunks
: spreading viruses, etc., costing large sums of money and other intangible
: losses to businesses.

Yes, but just hiding things by removing the possibility
of access with a debugger contradicts everything the OS
guys tell you about system security. They tell you, again
and again, that the only way of testing and improving the
security of a system is exposing its mechanism to attackers.
Anything else is a delusion, false security. If a system
cannot be protected from a debugger, then either the
administration has forgotten to separate developement
systems from production systems, or the system's
security parts are severly flawed, aren't they? 

So, indeed, as you say,

: We'd be far
: wiser to fund the development of a much more secure OS and reduce the ways
: in which cyberpunks or terrorists can do damage. (Maybe we can get a
: government contract under the auspices of "Homeland Defense"? :-)

(Hey, some of my best friends are punks, though leftist,
yet ingenious business people, and some of them are
securing servers for US companies, much to the satisfaction
of their employers, installing tar pits etc. :-)

-- georg