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>>rbanff+(OP)
Previously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1246990

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645170

This story won't see much traction on HN. The cult of Mac is too strong, and HN users generally aren't interested in secure operating systems.

>>sbierw+21
Actually folks on HN are interested in secure operating systems but they recognize that creating such is a Hard Problem (tm) which someone who is an unknown [1] in the field is unlikely to have achieved.

Now you can read up on Mark Miller's published papers [2] on Joule (actually pretty secure) and some of the issues associated with making things secure and get a much better feeling of solidity (for example).

So when the press release comes out that its passed the Defense department's B1/B2 review, then I suspect it will get a lot of interest here and else where.

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=10279027 LinkedIn profile, one job CEO of this thing? A blog full of black hat sort of exploits but I didn't see any peer reviewed work.

[2] http://research.google.com/pubs/author35958.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evaluat...

>>ChuckM+R1
Unknown? Rutkowska has done some of the most interesting security research in virtualization security, including most famously the "Blue Pill" and "Red Pill" demonstrations - escalating privileges to Dom0 (and detection of presence of a hypervisor by the client). For both HVM and PV architectures (e.g., Windows & Xen), she and her colleagues have done ground-breaking work that have impacted the implementation of every major commercial and open source virtualization.

Academic pubs != Relevance

Edit: But since you asserted it, here are researchers that cite her work (over 130, including IEEE and ACM folk):

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=13610021170603453007...