Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Musings on a lazy afternoon
Was reading a news article about Longhorn, yes Microsoft's latest OS to be released late 2006. And by the time everyone gets hold of the pirated copy and has it loaded on their pc would be maybe mid 2007, pretty conservative estimate but not the concern here. It is supposed to be more secure as
quoted by BBC
"Longhorn will make use of cryptographic keys stored in chips built into a PC for the first time. Such encryption features are usually kept as data on a hard drive. Having encryption keys actually on a chip makes it harder for data to be compromised through hack attacks."
But no matter how secure a PC may be, hackers will always evolve and pick up new ways to attack something that is a predominant target in the market. The only thing a more secure product can do is to delay the major exploits being released upon the release of the new product. So your product evolves, the hackers evolve their ways and attacks too. Life ain't so peachy afterall eh. The only thing to do is to reduce the market share and have more options, that's when the hackers get distracted and the proportion of attacks toward your product will reduce. There is no perfect software just like there's no perfect human. A computer is a mimicry of our brains, to assist in our daily lives. The things the computer can do, is just basically a compilation of tasks that we could do but most probably more time consuming and consolidation of the components. To sum it up, it's only human, prone to failures.
Unknown at 3:52 pm