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I guess you'll have to trust him and his friends from the FSB (former KGB) :)
Do you make the same remarks when Google, Microsoft, Apple or Palantir releases software?
Closed source OS from an anti virus company with a dodgy history? I will pass.
Closed source OS from an anti virus company with a dodgy history? I will pass.
No word on if this is FLOSS or not in the article so I'm assuming it'll be something closed. Which essentially renders the entire exercise moot form my POV. I also don't like how they mentioned Linux. They make it sound as if (a) Linux is very insecure...I'm no expert but I'd like to see them prove their system is more secure than a Linux distro dedicated to security. (b) Linux is the only viable option. There's plen…
"Anticipating your questions: not even the slightest smell of Linux. All the popular operating systems aren’t designed with security in mind, so it’s simpler and safer to start from the ground up and do everything correctly." It looks like a realistic assessment. General purpose operating systems ( at least the 3 most famous ones ) are built with ease of use in mind, not security. Even Torvalds admits it, saying that…
Closed source OS from an anti virus company with a dodgy history? I will pass.
"not even the slightest smell of Linux." So me too I have a dream. In my dream, every shop that needs two threads running and one semaphore synchronizing, will cease porting Linux and instead will roll up the sleeves, writes their own kernel 100% matching their need, prove its validity via formal verification and then use it. In the world where this is possible, why would one go for a non-generic OS from a third part…
It's hard enough for one organisation to do this, given the fairly specialised set of skills it requires. Let alone every IoT vendor. There's no reason to massively replicate this kind of work. People would be better off building an ecosystem around sel4.
Closed source OS from an anti virus company with a dodgy history? I will pass.
Could you expand on the "dodgy history"? I always thought that Kaspersky was one of the "good guys"