Man goes ballistic, says Linux is a security threat

EE TIMES said a real time operating system (RTOS) firm has gone apeshit bananas about the very idea of using Linux in embedded systems because it poses a security threat.

The magazine quotes CEO Dan O'Dowd from a firm called Green Hills as saying that Linux is wide open to attacks by foreign intelligence agencies and terrorists.

Dan doesn't have to worry about the UK intelligence agency nor our home grown terrorists from Northern Ireland. Both sets have a similar set of incompetencies.

But O'Dowd feels that code added from evil empires like China are being added daily into command control, comms systems and weapons systems.

There's much more of this here. µ