Stopping open proxies and open relays

Sat Feb 7 18:27:11 UTC 2004

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

>I wouldn't recommend trying to expand it to "prohibit making and selling
>computers that are insecure", since no computer is 100% secure, and there's
>no objective "secure enough" standard - closest you will get there is
>probably Dell's offer to ship machines pre-hardened to Center for Internet
>Security guidelines.
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It would help if systems would only execute code that is signed 
properly. This would make malware traceable. However the current way of 
getting your code signed is in many cases too costly for the casual open 
source developer so people are used to running unsigned or selfsigned 
application even when the facilities to check signatures would already 
exist in the system. (though for example in Windows, signatures are only 
checked at install, not runtime)

Pete