🚀 go-pugleaf

  Since I posted a couple of days ago, regarding the directions of research
to make future systems virus immune, there have been a series of interesting,
albeit off-track reactions.
  Several people remarked that virues on Unix machines were "impossible"
because of the access control separating accounts. No one bothered to 
remember that the past ten years have proven Unix system security to be an
oxymoron, a topic that keeps graduate students entertained nights. In fact,
if I may venture some sarcasm, if administrators and vendors did not make
such exagerated claims about Unix security, then there would probably be
fewer attacks :)

  Also, I do not care particularly about Unix, a 25 year old system with
lots of historical flaws -sorry, features :)
I was interested in FUTURE systems: How might these be rendered "resistant
 by design"?

Edmund 
-- eronald@cnam.cnam.fr

PS. I personnally use a NeXT computer, a Unix box with a wysiwyg GUI built
on top of a Display Postscript server that handles screen and keyboard, and
mouse. Mail on these can contain embedded Postscript, which is executed at
read-time by the server. Need I say more about how un-security can be buit
into a system?