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It's academic in the colloquial sense that the tools you describe aren't available to use. I'd love to have all the futurustic, secure stuff you describe, but f

It's academic in the colloquial sense that the tools you describe aren't available to use. I'd love to have all the futurustic, secure stuff you describe, but for a user's run-of-the-mill AWS deployment, that's not an option. All the other stuff you say is on point, of course, and there's an argument or a hundred to be made that a lot of these problems are already solved, and that we (as users and developers) are missing out on a massive amount of amazing OS research that could have made everything better than our current insecure, 1970s-tech monolithic kernel OSes.

nickpsecurity 10y ago
"It's academic in the colloquial sense that the tools you describe aren't available to use." I just named multiple tools available to use in commercial sector and FOSS. Their predecessors were used by commercial and government sector for a decade before that. That's 100% not academic even if a few started there. If anything, more work just needs to be poured into FOSS stuff so it gets more deployment and impact. "All the other stuff you say is on point, of course, and there's an argument or a hundred to be made that a lot of these problems are already solved, and that we (as users and developers) are missing out on a massive amount of amazing OS research that could have made everything better than our current insecure, 1970s-tech monolithic kernel OSes." We're definitely in agreement there. Fortunately, we're seeing some exploration into that including on the Rust front with Redox.