Comment by 3pt14159
10 years ago
The thing that you're missing here is that some of us do work on military-grade software and we still need to use a browser. We need to trust that going to a website won't leak information off of our HDs. I know a guy that builds fighter aircraft displays out of a giant clean room he built in his home. He was writing code for it on the same computer he was using for day to day work because he didn't really know any better (more of an Electrical Engineer than a software dev). My point is that you don't get to use the "it's just another feature" with some of this stuff.
For Counter Strike, sure. But for things like spreadsheets or web browsers, hundreds of thousands or millions of people working in arms manufacture or intelligence are going to be using your software and it needs to not leak designs to foreign intelligence agencies or competitors.
They need to fund development of a military grade browser then. Perhaps that might be a better investment than the F-35 for example?
I bet it would burn through a billion dollars, require a team of hundreds, take 10 years, then be so buggy would get cancelled.
I started off talking about the browser, not the F-35, but by the end the line blurred. :-)
That was awesome.
> "The thing that you're missing here is that some of us do work on military-grade software and we still need to use a browser."
Then use Qubes OS:
https://www.qubes-os.org/
You can set up a separate VM in Qubes OS purely for browsing. That way, even if your browser was compromised, it would be isolated from your other applications.
Is his house on a Military base? Otherwise, how can he have such sensitive material in his home? That is a much bigger security risk to me it seems ...
Maybe I wasn't clear, they were prototypes. The final factory that ended up building them at scale was next to an airbase that has the physical security that you'd expect. But they still use web browsers there.
I see. Curiously though I thought prototypes of that nature were to be treated as sensitive material. Thanks for clarifying.
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People don't build aircraft on military bases, they build them in civilian-run factories. Workers do take work home with them. Some stuff is "only" ITAR-controlled, some stuff is more closely regulated.