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Is it possible for Kaleidescape to get a virus?

skunk-punk

skunk-punk

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I appreciate that the operating system KEAOS is purpose built for Kaleidescape, therefore any potential virus threats would intentionally be targeted at the product. I have read through clause 9 of the service & license agreement with out mention of virus'. Is this because the potential of a virus is inconceivable?
 
skunk-punk said:
I appreciate that the operating system KEAOS is purpose built for Kaleidescape, therefore any potential virus threats would intentionally be targeted at the product. I have read through clause 9 of the service & license agreement with out mention of virus'. Is this because the potential of a virus is inconceivable?
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I would say that the chances of a Kaleidescape system getting a virus is 0%. The reason I say this is due to the following.
1) The only thing that Kaleidescape accepts are AV DVD's and CD's these are VERY low candidates for virus transmission.

2) Since the OS is 1) Closed and 2) No one outside of the engineers who wrote it have seen the actual OS and no one knows much about it (the os). Since we have been told that KEAOS is not Windows or *nix based, neither Windows virus's nor *nix based Unix, Linux and for that matter OS X virus's will run.

Is there a potential for a virus? Sure. A virus can be written for any computer system if you know the OS and how to access. Since this is not true for Kaleidescape the chance are VERY VERY VERY slim that you will see a virus.

My 2 cents.
 
I agree with James, in theory it is possible, but not anything to be concerned about with K.

Jim
 
Couple all of the above to the fact that the Kaleidescape system's communications to the outside world operate in a walled garden (ie. the server only communicates with specific servers in the outside world) result in a fairly secure system.
 
Kind of like asking if the "bubble boy" can get herpes. While I am sure we can dream up a scenerio that can make it happen, it will only be a reality if Michael Bay is involved and it involves aliens, conspiricies and a ton of expensive and beautiful things blowing up.
 
Thanks for your response Digital Studio Werks, much obliged.

^^^that's got to be a typo right, or was the works url taken?
 
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