[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Says George Adkins <george at webbastard.org> on Tue, 25 Jun 2002
00:01:29 -0400 ...

> Sure, no box can be secured from an Inside threat.  Give me Physical
access
> to the box and the resources to exploit it, and there is no security.
>
> However, since my boxes (and for that matter, 99% of the rest of the
> computers in the world) don't have to worry about that, we're back to the
> most common threat being a connection to the 'Net.

Oh, I dunno.  I say the average computer's worst, and most common, threat is
the average sysadmin.  To turn the box into a warez site, a clandestine pr0n
purveyor, or DDOS center?  Nah.  To generally hose it up, weeeelllll ....

-Shel
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