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Procedurally generated OS? 2017-01-08 10:40:39 Post No. 58395107
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>Genetically simmilar organisms tend to be vulnerable to the same diseases, one banana is infected and all the crops are ruined.
>Sex and mutation is benificial because it allows for unique DNA for every offsping, making disease slower spreading.
So lets look at how this applies to computers.
>New update comes out for Windows.
>Hacker finds vulnerability in one device with this update.
>Makes virus that infects all of them.
Why don't we have some randomisation to this then?
>New computer.
>Generates unique OS, one of potentially infinate possibilities.
>Hacker finds vulnerability in one.
>Can't make virus as this was a special case only occurring on this one device, and maybe like 3 others.
>Vulnerability reported and code will be put in the generator to prevent it from happening again.
Is this practical?
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>>58395107
>Is this practical?
Tell you what, go randomly generate numbers and try to execute it. Let us know when you discover an operating system.
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>>58395107
You must be a liberal arts major.
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>>58395127
op may be retarded but you somehow managed to one-up him. procedurally generated is not completely random.
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This was the use case for ASLR security, where the memory addresses of everything is randomly laid out on every boot meaning it should not have been possible for generic exploit to work. Researchers have found a way around this by searching the memory address space for the functions they need to perform a successful intrusion.
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>>58395163
The fact that in computers you need a procedure to generate a random number aside, a fully random system would be the polar opposite of a procedural system.
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>>58395128
> lib32-harfbuzz
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Linux naming schemes.
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>>58395163
...which is why it wouldn't be any meaningful increase in security, dipshit.
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