[Cryptography] North Korea and Sony

Ben Laurie benl at google.com
Fri Dec 12 06:26:39 EST 2014


On 11 December 2014 at 20:44, Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/10/2014 05:13 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
>> On 12/9/14 at 7:41 PM, bear at sonic.net (Ray Dillinger) wrote:
>>
>>> We shouldn't have to work out how to PREVENT mail clients from
>>> opening executable attachments; we should be establishing legal
>>> frameworks for recovering the entirely forseeable losses from
>>> the criminally negligent entities who make mail clients which
>>> CAN!
>>
>> More importantly, we should automatically open any program in a limited
>> authority space which limits its ability to access/change things to
>> "need to know".
>
> Right now there do not seem to be any capability-based secure
> Operating systems that have reached a level of development
> making them viable as real options for real companies to be
> using for everyday work.
>
> Could this be fixed?

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