Jesus Sanchez wrote: > TomC!E! BodE>C!r escribiC3: >> After quick search on web it looks like it's based on FreeBSD 5.3 >> (initial version) with Windows like GUI.So it doesn't looks so secure >> now :-) But government agencies must have reason to receive money so >> why don't make "wave" about dangerous China with their new >> ultra-hyper-super secure system? Ofcourse that there can be >> interesting modifications.Maybe I will try it in Qemu :-) >> > > the chinese government really feels so vulnerable against U.S.? > i mean, they say it like "the WWIII will begin soon and we need > to defend us on the cyberspace with our super-secure OS"
in case you haven't noticed, the Internet IS a war zone. The battle is well underway, and has been for a number of years. This idea of international cyber warfare is scary to me primarily because if China can break into my government's servers, Joe-Bob Hacker probably can, too. If my government can break into China's servers, Joe-Bob can do that, too. The difference is, Joe-Bob Hacker doesn't have to wait for formal declarations of war. He's at work now. He isn't worried about retaliation or international trade implications. He just wants a quick profit. Now. This is one of the more level battlefields in the history of warfare, I suspect. A secure OS is probably one of the more purely "defensive weapons" around... <rant> I, for one, would appreciate government agencies taking a paranoid, security-oriented approach to computer systems, rather than the approach most governments and businesses are using, which seems to boil down to, "Security Second to Everything Else". Or like this: http://www.fcw.com/Articles/2009/05/07/Hacker-demands-ransom-for-data.aspx where the only bad guy is the person who exploited an insecure system, not the fools and assholes who left and CREATED it insecure in the first place (you can tell them I said that). If you build and run a bank with a flimsy interior-grade door on the vault, no guard and no lock on the front door, and someone robs the bank, yes, the robber is not a good person, BUT neither are the people who avoided doing the RIGHT THINGS to secure the bank. Yet, the media and officials are spending large amounts of time condemning those that exploit opportunities, and treating the people who created the opportunities as innocent victims. If this prompts other countries and governments to get off their asses and start taking proactive security seriously, great. </rant> > and after all they based it on FreeBSD? I'm a OpenBSD user and > I really feel that I've enought privacy, don't need a > super-secret-ultra-secure OS > nor to say "Made In China" xD As at least some Chinese people are not proficient in the language that most of the mainstream OS are written in (though I'm sure an awful lot of them could correct my grammar *sigh*), so I can easily imagine the benefit to a "home grown" OS with a little less of an English bias. Nick.
