Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th May 2006 19:11 UTC, submitted by Rahul
"Security and validation are critical issues in computing, and the next fifty years will be harder than the last. There are a number of proven programming techniques and design approaches which are already helping to harden our modern systems, but each of these must be carefully balanced with usability in order to be effective. In this talk, Alan Cox, fellow at Red Hat Linux, explores the future of what may be the biggest threat facing software engineers, the unverified user."
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2005-07-06
>randomizing doesn't fix bugs, it obscures them.
And? What's your point?
If the randomisation prevents a malware for executing this is still a win.
I'm not sure I understand your criticism: the talk was reminding well-know security principles, but they were true in the fifties and they will still be true in the next 50 years.
The problem is in building *usable* secure OS, not in security in itself..