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[J Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete Connolly wrote:
> On Friday 11 July 2008 18:57:24 J Sloan wrote:
>   
> > Jim Henderson wrote:
> >     
> > > Then again, that's your choice as a system user.  I personally think
> > > waiting until the first major attack to go "oh, wow, we need an AV
> > > solution *now*" is the wrong time to start developing a solution or
> > > looking at the options.  I really don't understand what's so wrong about
> > > being proactive.
> > >       
> > I don't know that I'd classify mimicking failed strategies from the
> > microsoft world as being proactive. If a problem of the type that you
> > fear arises, or seems likely to arise, it should be solved using
> > strategies and algorithms developed according to *nix principles IMHO.
> >
> >     
> <snip>
>   
> > Joe
> >     
>
> As an aside, Dr.  Crispin Cowan, one of the leading developers (if not THE 
> leading developer) of AppArmor, is now working in the Core OS Security team 
> at Microsoft.  A very clever guy, who I admire very much.
>
> Novell (and Linux in general) lost a very valuable advocate there, but maybe 
> the next version of Windows will have a  proper security model, not the 
> current nagware that's been bolted onto Vista.  We can only hope.
>   

Yes, I'd heard about that. a real shame.

Joe

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