Risky Business #157 -- Voluntary codes versus regulation
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 16:58
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On this week's show we're chatting with the head of Australia's Internet Industry Association (IIA), Peter Coroneos, about the government's plan to force internet users here to use antivirus software or be kicked off the tubes!
Peter was the architect of Australia's just released voluntary code for ISPs, but he'll be along soon to talk about why he thinks regulation here is actually a BAD idea. That's coming up soon.
Regarding the news segment when Adam discussed bypassing DEP, I was wondering if these bypasses were effective when DEP is enabled both in the hardware and software.
That is, I thought enabling DEP on systems that have a processor that supports it (No execute or Execute Disable) was the real deal. And software only implementations of DEP weren't nearly as effective.
I brought this up because there was no mention of hardware/ software DEP in the discussion.
Are hardware and software enabled DEP machines much more secure than software only implementations?
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