Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 05, 2003 12:49 AM
Did you even bother to read the article before posting?
Note this part:
> The Slammer worm penetrated the plant's internal network and lodged in an unpatched Windows server. The worm's scanning slowed the internal network to a crawl, eventually crashing the plant's Safety Parameter Display System...
Maybe the plant managed to stay up, but the danger was there.
For you to claim that it's not a problem, is like me saying, "My brakes may have failed, but I managed to steer away from everything until the car came to a halt, so it's not a problem."
Windows should not be used for enterprise level applications. It's not safe.
And neither Windows nor Linux should be used for things like running a nuclear reactor. For that you need a fault-tolerant, mathematically-verified micro-kernel.
One candidate for critical operations is QNX. In the future, however, in line with the article's thesis, an Open Source micro-kernel might be even better. Maybe that's where GNU Hurd will initially find its niche.
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Re:paranoia
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 05, 2003 12:49 AMNote this part:
> The Slammer worm penetrated the plant's internal network and lodged in an unpatched Windows server. The worm's scanning slowed the internal network to a crawl, eventually crashing the plant's Safety Parameter Display System...
Maybe the plant managed to stay up, but the danger was there.
For you to claim that it's not a problem, is like me saying, "My brakes may have failed, but I managed to steer away from everything until the car came to a halt, so it's not a problem."
Windows should not be used for enterprise level applications. It's not safe.
And neither Windows nor Linux should be used for things like running a nuclear reactor. For that you need a fault-tolerant, mathematically-verified micro-kernel.
One candidate for critical operations is QNX. In the future, however, in line with the article's thesis, an Open Source micro-kernel might be even better. Maybe that's where GNU Hurd will initially find its niche.
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