possible hacking?

Seth Gordon sethg at ropine.com
Wed Jan 25 11:46:34 EST 2006


> Yep, when the security environment gets better as a whole,
> script-kiddies start using better scripts.  Requires no extra effort on
> their part and no better understanding of whats going on.

Coyotos (http://www.coyotos.org/) is an interesting project; they're 
trying to develop an OS where one can mathematically prove what 
privileges any program running on it will and will not be able to acquire.

Part of this project involves writing a whole new systems-programming 
language whose programs can be fed into a theorem prover, so I'm not 
exactly holding my breath until this thing is released...but it looks 
really cool, especially when you read some of the papers describing the 
underlying theory.



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