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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

This report studies the global Embedded Hypervisor market, analyzes and researches the Embedded Hypervisor development status and forecast in United States, EU, Japan, China, India and Southeast Asia. This report focuses on the top players in global market, like IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Vmware, Inc., NXP Semiconductors N.V., QNX Software Systems Limited, SYSGO AG, Mentor Graphics, WindRiver Systems, Inc., ENEA, Sierraware, TenAsys Corporation, Lynx Software Technologies, Inc., Green Hills Software, Acontis Technologies GmbH, Citrix Systems, Inc., Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH.

From:  SATPRNews 

Commentary and interviews available: Again, we must comment on the singularlack of ethics and callousness of corporations today, especially, those who are contractors for the Department of Defense or supply essential products to other DoD Contractors.  Notice the below list from the article on the Embedded industry for software: 

"This report studies the global Embedded Hypervisor market, analyzes and researches the Embedded Hypervisor development status and forecast in United States, EU, Japan, China, India and Southeast Asia. This report focuses on the top players in global market, like IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Vmware, Inc., NXP Semiconductors N.V., QNX Software Systems Limited, SYSGO AG, Mentor Graphics, WindRiver Systems, Inc., ENEA, Sierraware, TenAsys Corporation, Lynx Software Technologies, Inc., Green Hills Software, Acontis Technologies GmbH, Citrix Systems, Inc., Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH."

It is deceptive to view all corporations as bastions of enterprise.  So often this is just not the case.  The example of Green Hills Software, Inc., is not even that unusual.  This is only one of the articles written to raise the alarm on those without conscience who are driving the use of military violence for profit.  When Psychopaths Cooperate.  This article was published in 2011.  Warnings have continued.  


This market research study is based on the Embedded Hypervisor market across the globe analyzes the historical as well as the present performance of the global Embedded Hypervisor and makes predictions on the future status of this market based on this analysis. The report focuses the market for Embedded Hypervisor across the globe taking the existing industry chain, the statistics, and the market dynamics of demand and supply of Embedded Hypervisor into consideration.

Monday, March 11, 2013

Cal Tech News Vol. 9, No. 3, April 1975

Article on Glenn Hightower and his partner, John S. Denker from Cal Tech News Vol. 9, No. 3, April 1975

The values operating with Hightower's decision-making show a focus on the needs of people who are deaf, and meeting their needs.  Hightower was defrauded of his ownership in the company he had funded, Green Hills Software, Inc., in 1998 through a conspiracy between Dan O'Dowd and Craig Franklin, then Senior Vice President. 



Dan O'Dowd Reminds World of UNIX Creator Ken Thompson's Security Stunt

 From:   Linux News Desk

An article from Dan (Drone Boy) O'Dowd

"We must not entrust national security to Linux," he declares.

In a speech to the Net-Centric Operations Industry Forum in McLean, Va., Dan O'Dowd, CEO of Green Hills Software Inc., argued that the proliferation of Linux through a growing number of U.S. defense systems poses a serious and urgent security threat,

 "The very nature of the open source process should rule Linux out of defense applications," O'Dowd said.

"The open source process violates every principle of security. It welcomes everyone to contribute to Linux. Now that foreign intelligence agencies and terrorists know that Linux is going to control our most advanced defense systems, they can use fake identities to contribute subversive software that will soon be incorporated into our most advanced defense systems," he con tinued. 
In addition, O'Dowd noted, developers in Russia and China are also contributing to Linux software. Recently, the CEO of MontaVista Software, the world's leading embedded Linux company, said that his company has "two and a half offshore development centers. A big one in Moscow and we just opened one in Beijing."

Linux has been selected to control the functionality, security, and communications of critical defense systems including the Future Combat System, the Joint Tactical Radio System and the Global Information Grid, said O'Dowd.

"If Linux is compromised, our defenses could be disabled, spied on, or commandeered. Every day new code is added to Linux in Russia, China and elsewhere throughout the world. Every day that code is incorporated into our command, control, communications and weapons systems. This must stop," he added, before continuing:
"Linux in the defense environment is the classic Trojan horse scenario - a gift of 'free' software is being brought inside our critical defenses. If we proceed with plans to allow Linux to run these defense systems without demanding proof that it contains no subversive or dangerous code waiting to emerge after we bring it inside, then we invite the fate of Troy." 
One of O'Dowd's most telling points came when he debunked the claim by Linux advocates that its security can be assured by the openness of its source code, arguing that "many eyes" looking at the Linux source code will quickly find any subversions.

Ken Thompson, the original developer of the Unix operating system (which heavily influenced Linux) proved that this just isn't true, O'Dowd argued. Thompson installed a back door in the binary code of UNIX that automatically added his user name and password to every UNIX system.

O'Dowd told his audience that,  when Thompson revealed the secret 14 years later, he declared:
 "The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not create yourself. No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."
"Before most Linux developers were born, Ken Thompson had already proven that 'many eyes' looking at the source code can't prevent subversion," said O'Dowd. "Linux is being used in defense applications even though there are operating systems available today that are designed to meet the most stringent level of security evaluation in use by the National Security Agency, Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 7 (EAL 7)." MORE