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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It can't be secured because the source code is open source

No, that's why it's secure. You can actually have people look at the code. And bugs are quickly patched because so many people are working on the source code constantly.

It's better than windows by a mile. But of course like you said a proprietary OS would probably be best, but would take a lot of time investment by the CCP compared to just using linux.

And as soon as the CCP comes out with a proprietary system it will begin to be hacked, just like windows which is also proprietary (but also has built-in back doors, unlike linux). So even a proprietary OS probably wouldn't be much more secure than windows, at least after a few years have passed. They won't have the benefit of "security through obscurity" that is typically provided by proprietary software

[–]binaryblob 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I can build an unhackable operating system just fine; it's just that the CCP would be too stupid to use it, because they literally have nobody within their borders with even a remote understanding of what would be required to do that.

This is also why I stopped being afraid of thermonuclear war; humanity can barely function as it is right now. We have to care about food prices already. Imagine an alien civilization observing us and seeing that we have difficulty with even feeding everyone. They would think "What a fucking losers down there!" and they would be right.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I can build an unhackable operating system just fine;

One that has a browser that is compliant with all modern internet standards? One that can load every image type and file type like a regular computer?

It's easy to make a new command line OS that does basic stuff, but to make a fully-functioning modern operating system is a gargantuan task. Literally hundreds of thousands of man-hours of careful coding and testing. You have to make video players, build TCP/IP/HTTPS protocols from scratch so they work with other computers on the internet, build graphics rendering systems, and on and on and on.

And that's also assuming you're using non-backdoored hardware, which would probably have to be designed from scratch too. Since all intel chips have been shown to have a built-in backdoor, and probably AMD too

[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I didn't say how long it would take me, but if you want something like that done in 15 years with three billion dollars it can probably be done if you hand me the cash for just the software part (I don't think that would include a web-browser, because what a web-browser should do is not exactly written in a useful way). I would not write every line of code myself. The hardware stack would likely be at least an order of magnitude more expensive and whether or how hardware can be shielded against any time of remote sensing are likely state secrets. If some alien civilization wanted to read my screen from space, I think they would probably be able to do that. The cost for such infrastructure would probably be in the hundreds of trillions of dollars.