DARPA’s Information Innovation Office, Howard Shrobe, Values Compartmentalisation But Loses the Opportunity to Promote GNU/Linux and BSDs
TWO days ago a Microsoft-sponsored site said that "DARPA [Defense Advanced Research Project Agency] tries a simple but profound concept to improve cybersecurity", arguing that in software - like in ship-building - you "build it into compartments that can isolate the flow."
So they speak of "reinventing FOSS and, in particular, OpenBSD," an associate argues while taking note of the latest Windows TCO story ("Putin ready to cripple Britain in cyber war"... typically targeting Windows because it has back doors).
DARPA’s Information Innovation Office, Howard Shrobe, is quoted as saying: "Of course, the more they understand this way of programing, the easier it would become to do the analysis. But we’re also concerned with the billions of lines of existing code. So if you take current operating systems, those are millions of lines of code, dozens of millions of lines of code, and they’re critical. So we have to deal with the existing legacy systems as well as new systems."
Later he mentions Linux Foundation and LLVM foundation, but there's no mention of GNU/Linux or the BSDs (Linux Foundation, despite its name, isn't about Linux; only about 2% of its budget goes to Linux and it's promoting rivals/counterparts of Linux).
All in all, he misses an opportunity. He says "I’m a principal research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and AI Lab", i.e. the same places that took bribes from Bill Gates through Jeffrey Epstein [1, 2]. █