Obviously, this comment came from a man that is just as delusional and egotistical as DSK. He THINKS that all women want to have sex with him. In reality, he is garbage. I am looking forward to reading about evidence DSK's untimely death.

Yes, we need anti-virus software, mainly to keep the lawyers happy. Actually, Linux does needs good security monitoring to protect from break-in exploits. The lawyers and businessmen just don't understand the difference between that and anti-virus, so they are sort of right.

If someone can spoof DNS, why not just spoof routing? Now days, it is very common to connect through public wireless networks. You should not have to depend on the connection point not being hacked somehow. My understanding is that DNSSEC can supply host keys as well, so you can be sure that the host you actually connect to is the one defined by DNSSEC. Is it being implemented that way, or is it just being used to avoid DNS spoofing?

Also, are DNSSEC certificates designed in a way that generates profit for certificate providers? We don't want a system where the system is more oriented toward profit than security.

The important issue is not to create bug-free software. It is about designing redundancy and validation that avoids both software bugs and fraudulent data tampering. Before you leave the voting booth, your data should be transmitted to multiple locations, and you should be able to later
validate that your individual vote is correctly in the system with some form of hash or validation code.

Why use a very complex system to make digital computing behave like analog computing?? It would be better just to have part of the chip or a co-processor run using analog signals. With analog, you can probably increase the clock speed and increase the noise level rather than getting intermittent total failures.

But, given that all of the analog devices are going digital, there are probably not many useful applications.

Sun/McNealy may not be a good choice to ask about making a profit, but the question is how can the Government as an end-user save money. Open Source can be bad for companies that make money selling equivalent software, but that is what we want.