Template:Everything You Know About Client Security Is Wrong
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Everything You Know About Client Security Is Wrong
(Or: What It Would Take To Build A Secure OS Your Mother Could Use)
Traditional client security models have been spectacular failures when it comes to creating a safe computing environment. Despite firewalls, antivirus software and such, the average PC is still an extreme security risk. Much blame has been placed on vendor 'M' for this, but despite their abysmal security practices, this is pretty much beside the point: just about every current operating system would fail in similar ways when exposed to the requirements of today's consumer market.In this session, we'll take a look at how security threats have evolved in such a way that traditional models no longer offer effective containment. Also, the dangers of addiction to ineffective third-party security tools or equally unhelpful 'alternative' application/OS evangelism are uncovered. Finally, we'll discuss directions that future operating systems and applications should follow to overcome these issues, and how existing systems could be modified to start offering true security to their users.Attending this session is highly recommended for security experts, developers, system administrators, as well as anyone with the notion that, in the long run, using browser 'F', antivirus package 'N' or non-Windows OS 'L' makes the average consumer significantly safer than he or she is today.
