Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

[Bill Davidsen]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, John Richard Moser wrote:


> Thus, by having fewer exploits available, fewer successful attacks
> should happen due to the laws of probability.  So the goal becomes to
> fix as many bugs as possible, but also to mitigate the ones we don't
> know about.  To truly mitigate any security flaw, we must make a
> non-circumventable protection.

To the extent that this means "if you see a bug, fix the bug, even if it's
unrelated" I agree completely.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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