Comment on Secure Operating Systems (Microkernels seems to be the future)
echo64@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel like a lot of this is driven by a bias towards the unknown. You don’t know all the security issues in something new or even something old that doesn’t get the same level of testing as Linux.
I would trust security hardened Linux over all of the suggestions any day of the week. Better the devil you know.
SecuMiKern@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
While that’s true for mitigations, one system can be more secure than another by design
Things like an OS that’s designed with sandboxing, more clean codebase that’s auditable, permissions, … in mind is more secure than an OS that later adds them as an afterthought
MacOS and Windows’s security are objectively better than linux’s, the problem is they are not open source
echo64@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think we have different definitions of security. Your definition may be more theoretically secure, in your mind, for the novel and interesting solutions. My definition is about a hardened, time-tested solution.
Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Those things were “added later” to create iOS and Android, they aren’t from scratch systems. iOS especially shares a large portion of its code base with macOS (much of which is open source).
csm10495@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The idea of a clean code base only existed for the original writers… most of the time.