3 ms·
can you provide some justification for "Historically, the most secure operating systems on the market have been "open", not closed."? if you take security to b
by dododo 16y ago
can you provide some justification for "Historically, the most secure operating systems on the market have been "open", not closed."?
if you take security to be assured in some sense, TCSEC might be a reasonable standard. I do not know of any open source operating system certified to A1, but there is at least one closed source OS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTS-400 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTS-400
if you mean track record, in terms of number of compromises, i'd be interested to see the data.
- jbarham 16y ago> I do not know of any open source operating system certified... Certification costs money which is most likely the real reason why open source OS's have not been "certified" as secure, not because they're intrinsically insecure. OpenBSD, for example, has a reputation for being secure. FWIW none of the open source Unices have UNIX certification (http://www.opengroup.org/platform/unix_certification/ http://www.opengroup.org/platform/unix_certification/) but that obviously is not preventing the spread of Linux into "enterprise" computing.