Interesting stuff for OS and security-minded people: Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation. MULTICS was B2-certified and was considered for re-development into an A1 system.
Archive for September, 2007
Security lessons from MULTICS
Saturday, September 29th, 2007BlueHat
Thursday, September 27th, 2007If getting a new product ready for market is time-consuming, it’s 10x worse to try to do a major revision of that product while supporting users! I’ve been down this road many times in the past, but it never fails to impress me as to how much harder it is to make forward progress when you simultaneously have to support users. I wonder how long it would have taken the NT team to deliver 3.1 if they had had users out there, since it took 4 years as it was!
Anyway, I’ve managed to find two days to escape to BlueHat in Redmond, which I’m really looking forward to. I’m a little concerned, though, since I’m here with my Mac, on Wi-Fi, and David Maynor is here…