peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (01/06/88)
In article <7967@g.ms.uky.edu>, sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes: > The designers at Commodore Amiga should have never made it possible to > install a virus in such a way. One *cannot* rely on ignorance as > protection against programmers with bad intentions. You cannot design a system in which you run unverified software that someone cannot hide a virus. If they didn't use the warm boot vector to activate their virus they'd have hidden it somewhere else. The ONLY way to guarantee true safety is to have an operating system with multiuser protection, hardware memory protection, and no ability to transfer object modules. Even then, there are holes you can squeeze through. Look into truly secrure operating systems some time, and ask yourself if you really want to live in that world. Still, I think the current crop of personal computers are a little too open. A little more security (at the expense of a little user friendliness) would be nice... but... Security and convenience are opposite goals. You (the personal computer market) rejected the security of UNIX because it was a little inconvenient. Now you (and we, who just wanted their own UNIX system) are paying the price. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.