[e-lang] New Browser, New Paradigm?

[Quincy Hornsby]

First,

Heard about this on Doug Stephan's "good day live."  Its a new browser that
temporarily was freely downloadable and that supposedly sequesters malicious
downloads in a virtual environment that prevents access to the rest of the
computer
http://www.greenborder.com

Not sure what technology it uses. It may or may not have anything to do with
capabilities.

The website boasts
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 Isolation and Virtualization

At the core of all GreenBorder products is its unique *Isolation and
Virtualization* engine. It creates a "virtual session" in which programs run
safely, prevented from seeing—or touching—users' files, personal
information, or the operating system resources. Inside the virtual session,
GreenBorder prevents anything that might be encountered on the Internet or
hidden inside a downloaded file from reaching outside the virtual session to
exploit other programs on the desktop, steal data from users' files, or
permanently install on the machine.
Data Security

GreenBorder's security strictly controls what happens inside the virtual
session. In particular, it makes users' files and personal information
invisible to anything inside the virtual session, preventing theft and
leakage of important data. By actively controlling what can go into or come
out of the virtual session, GreenBorder not only secures personal data on
the PC but also when it is entered or viewed online. GreenBorder:

   - Blocks access to private files, such as those in My Documents or on
   network shares.
   - Hides the existence of the corporate network (LANs and VPNs) so that
   Internet programs can't attack servers or other desktops (GreenBorder
   Enterprise).
   - Provides a clean environment where personal information can be
   safely entered online.
   - Prevents isolated programs from using the windows clipboard
   (copy/paste, drag/drop) to snoop for confidential data or to drop infections
   in other programs

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Second,

A few years back I emailed elang with a question about whether E would run
on Taos Elate's small java run time engine.  The conclusion was probably not
since Taos' engine wasn't a full java implementation.   Since then I've ran
across something better. Bernard Hodson has invented an actual Turing
machine. It does everything that Java does only better. In fact, according
to his publications, it does everything the computer you're reading this
with does... only better.

>From that he's developed a java runtime engine that runs on anything. That's
to say full blown java applications can be ran on the memory and
computational dexterity available in your wrist watch!  Today's bloatware
applications (say Windows XP) can be literaly recompiled to run on a
Commodore 64!

This may sound far fetched to some of you.  But think of how far fetched the
power of capabilities seem to those used to other paradigms. The end of
viruses! The end of hacking! Bah hum bug!  I believe this guy has something
special here.  And an alliance between the two paradigms would only do
better for both.  Capabilities could so easily be introduced into Hodson's
paradigm and vice a versa it's like they're soul mates.  Imagine a version
of Polaris downloading over 56k modem in one second and occupying less than
10k of memory. You could include a full version of Polaris, Capdesk, E or
any applicatioin you could name in a firefox browser plugin. Think about it.

Here's his website:
http://www.genetix.ca

 Suddenly, these two infamous quotes make a lot more sense!

640K *ought* *to* *be* *enough* *for* *anybody*. Bill Gates - 1981.

If you need more than *56K*, you don't understand the problem. Charles Moore
- 1991

Q
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