Miller on Mac OS X, Chrome, Firefox, Economics
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Mar 2009 13:51 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
Privacy, Security, Encryption Fresh from winning the PWN2OWN contest yesterday, Charlie Miller has been interviewed by ZDNet. He talks about how Mac OS X is a very simple operating system to exploit due to the lack of any form of anti-exploit features. He also explains that the underlying operating system is much more important in creating a successful exploit than the bowser, why Chrome is so hard to hack, and many other things.
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RE[7]: Operating System Security
by kaiwai on Mon 23rd Mar 2009 01:23 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: Operating System Security"
kaiwai
Member since:
2005-07-06

Don't know where your "have no way" comes from. Just because IE is installed separately so it shouldn't be in the kernel? Do you understand what the meaning "in the kernel" is?


Is it part of the actual kernel, does it run in kernel space? no it doesn't.

I don't want to make a crude conclusion it is in or not in the kernel. But from your statement, it's a shame to reiterate "no way" without any persuasive reasoning. Ah, you said it is integrated with GUI, do you happen to know that Window's one infamous character is to integrating its GUI sub-system within kernel?


Again, you claimed that Internet Explorer is integrated in with the kernel - provide proof or retract your statement.

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middleware Member since:
2006-05-11

Don't know you "again" what! Please read my comments again! I don't claim anything about it is in or not in the kernel. It's just a shame you said "no way" without and proof!

By saying "no way", you would like to eliminate any possibility that MS put any part of IE in kernel. But you have *no way* to prove it. So put it a fair discussion, draw back your "no way". While I am not sure if IE was and is in kernel, it's a good habit that MS put a lot of features which can, and should be in user space (even some file parsing) into kernel. And by lacking transparency like UNIX, it's always hard to say.

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