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> It's not that engineers cant take care of their own security. I dunno. My computer has at least 1 hardware backdoor that I know off, but that I just can't ge
by marcosdumay 1y ago
> It's not that engineers cant take care of their own security.
I dunno. My computer has at least 1 hardware backdoor that I know off, but that I just can't get hardware without any equivalent exploit.
My OS is developed with a set of tools that is known to make code revision about as hard as possible. Provides the bare minimum application insulation. And is 2 orders of magnitude larger than any single person can read on their lifetime. It's also the usable OS out there with best security guarantees, everything else is much worse or useless.
A browser is almost a new complete layer above the OS. And it's 10 times larger. Also written in a way that famously makes revisions impossible.
And then there are the applications, that is what everybody is focusing today. Keeping them secure is close to useless if one don't fix all of the above.
- dehugger 1y agoYou never actually told us what your OS is.
- Alive-in-2025 1y agoThey must mean macos, right?
- dehugger 1y agoI think you could find a dozen different operating systems that someone, somewhere, would say similar about.
- dotancohen 1y agoBecause that would be a distraction to the point they're actually making.
- dehugger 1y agoThe point is thoroughly undermined since we can't judge the veracity of their claims
- dotancohen 1y agoAnd discussing the specifics of whatever OS GP uses is exactly the type of OT he was wise enough to avoid. Personally, I think he uses Emacs.