On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Thu, 10/23/08, mak maxie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: mak maxie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD. >> To: misc@openbsd.org >> Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 3:54 AM >> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 >> >> Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports >> signed binaries. > > This is the same dude that still hasn't provided good answers to djbdns as to > what supposedly was found wrong with their dns program.
Signed binaries mean nothing. They only provide meaningful ways to assert the source of the code but not its intentions. As long as the intentions are not enforceable and authenticated, signed binaries are worthless. > Here's the related thread: > > http://marc.info/?t=121933338300004&r=1&w=2 > > -- http://www.felipe-alfaro.org/blog/disclaimer/
