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What we need is operating systems that are escalation attack proof, not hardware based anti-virus.

I was hoping something like this would break through:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security

Not that I've bought any anti-virus stuff since we stopped using Microsoft. In fact, the anti-virus stuff was a good part of the decision to quit using microsoft completely. It turned perfectly good computers in to space heaters.

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