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

[Jim Thompson]

On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Nakashima wrote:

> 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?

Only if your software has no bugs, or you're willing to reboot more  
often than the mean time to next infection.

jim

>>> 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?

its been done.  See any recent LiveCD/Knoppix exercise.