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| Authored by: mcinsand on Thursday, September 20 2012 @ 10:40 AM EDT |
MS Windows' inherent insecurity is a national security risk. As we saw with
Stuxnet, even taking Windows boxes offline is inadequate. For any computing
hardware that will handle anything of a sensitive nature, we have to start
requiring some basic design fundamentals. Modular design, such as having the
kernel, desktop manager, and applications as discrete modules is one
requirement. The supplier also cannot intentionally put in back-doors or
phone-home requirements. Eventually, as computing power increases, maybe we can
get to a microkernel architecture to make the path from security hole to system
pwnage more tortuous... much more difficult.
I'm not advocating an outright ban on anything Microsoft or from any other
manufacturer. However, continued use of such a flawed product as today's
Windows makes reliability and security impossible. If our national security
matters, though, then we need to start a review of our software design
requirements, and only products that meet those requirements can be
legally-permitted.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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