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Great article here.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sp4.html
Interesting E language for secure operating systems.
http://www.ntecs.de/old-hp/s-direktnet/E/e-intro.en.htm
A better idea might be to drop windows and linux and move to an os programmed in a language with bounds checking and garbage collector.
Here’s one with oberon(like pascal,i think)
http://www.bluebottle.ethz.ch/
Another with Python calls its Unununium OS
http://sean.fioritto.us/weblog/index.php?p=136
http://unununium.org/
Forgot .
Throw in http://www.openbsd.org/
or a java os thats going nowhere.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jos
Jnode. Java OS.
http://jnode.sourceforge.net/portal/
i’ll say it again, security is too often product or technology led. bounds checking does not security make. firewalls fo not secutity make.
security is about:
* privacy
* integrity
and also …
* availability
* accountability
how does a python OS or a java OS ensure the above 4?