[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

James Sharp jsharp at psychoses.org
Mon Jun 24 22:43:40 CDT 2002


> I think that the problem here is that OS security is already becoming a
> lost art.  Folks are allowing themselves to get caught up in the "my OS
> is more secure, right out of the box" debate, and failing to see the
> obvious - no OS is sufficiently secure right out of the box.  All must
> be tweaked, modified, and massaged so that you aren't cracked within 20
> minutes of placing it on the 'net.  Gawd that was a bad day...

You know life sucks when your box gets cracked as you're downloading the
newest set of security patches to it.



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