Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to stop future viruses.
Message-ID: <2328@looking.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 88 07:25:12 GMT
References: <16722@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1988Nov10.172126.27002@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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It's well known how to have a secure system.  Don't have any lines into the
system.

The lesson to be learned from this is the real world, where we want these
lines, is that would shouldn't have humungo-complex-buggy programs
talking to the outside world.

We should apply the ring security kernel concept to our communication
programs, and then we can make our own private decisions inside the system
about how to trade off security for convenience.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473