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40hz:
It's fairly straightforward to design security into a system, which basically comes down to controlling access to memory and the supervisor. The old mainframe security was virtually bulletproof in that regard.-40hz (November 11, 2015, 11:27 AM)
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That's only a very small part of the whole picture, though... there's a Whole Lot Of Horrible in that world because people mess up the (complicated!) security settings and then expose the boxes to the internet. Like when Anakata of PirateBay fame hacked the central Danish police mainframe.
-f0dder (November 11, 2015, 11:58 AM)
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To be sure. But that's not a coding issue. It's an "interface" (i.e. human) issue. If we could just get the people out of the loop, security wouldn't be an issue at all.
Easy to say.
But not practical to do.
Nor necessarily desirable, as the cautionary scifi story Colossus: The Forbin Project suggested many years ago. ;)
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