Re: Is this mail list dead?

[Casey Schaufler <casey@sgi.com>]

Crispin Cowan wrote:

> Casy's claims not withstanding, it is my perception that the market has
> spoken loud and clear:  C2 is *not* wanted by very many customers.

It is called out often enough that every system vendor
supplies it.

> There's
> a long trail of wreckage of companies who built orange book style secure
> systems, and then discovered to their regret that there was no market for
> such systems.

Badly baked cookies don't sell, either!

> The one who is "doing it" might be well advised to see whether anyone else
> cares :-)

Security(*) on a computer is like anchovies on a pizza.
Most people don't want 'em, but the pizzaria that does
not have them finds it's sales down much further than
the fishes account for themselves.

[*} My kind of security. The evil kind. Assurance. Bwah hah hah.

> We know how to build systems that are useful, and we know how to build
> systems that are secure.  The main challenge is to build systems that are
> both useful and secure.

And cheap!

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