MIT's "Technology Review" has an interview with Whitfield Diffie
(the Diffie of Diffie-Hellman key exchange, among many other important
cryptographic discoveries),
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/23951/
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/23951/page2/
On page 2 of the interview, he's describing near-term measures to improve
the security of "cloud computing":
Much of this would result from care on the part of cloud computing
providers--choosing more secure operating systems such as Open BSD
and Solaris--and keeping those systems carefully configured.
ciao,
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-- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]"
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Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
"C++ is to programming as sex is to reproduction. Better ways might
technically exist but they're not nearly as much fun." -- Nikolai Irgens
