[LUAU] Its time to simply ban Windoze machines from the Internet

[Nakashima]

On Sunday, October 22, 2006, at 09:14  AM, Tim Newsham wrote:

>> Would the system be safer if it was all on a CD and there was no hard 
>> drive?
>
> In a way.  The system could still be attacked and used by attackers to
> stage attacks against other machines, but without a way to save any
> persistent state, you'd get back to a "clean" state by just rebooting
> (barring any bios hacks or using USB storage for persistent state, 
> which
> some CD based systems do).
>
> Of course, if an attacker could get into the system before the reboot,
> they'll be able to get in again after the reboot, as the system will
> be essentially the same.

So, not a perfect solution, but is it better than the current one?

>> Would you be able to make a CD based system fast enough for a basic 
>> user?
>
> Yes.

What are the chances of the FOSS community taking this on? Given what's 
available in terms of hardware and software, would this be a difficult 
thing to do?
--Peter