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> hardened against virtually all attacks Hardened? Have you tested it? This feature relies on obscurity for it's "security". > all attacks Also, stating that
by pdkl95 10y ago
> hardened against virtually all attacks
Hardened? Have you tested it? This feature relies on obscurity for it's "security".
> all attacks
Also, stating that anything could be secure against "all" attacks is the kind of hubris that encourages complacency.
> independent operating system
That OS is monoculture[1], greatly increasing the utility of an exploit.
> even if those machines have been compromised
Only if you assume the builtin OS is magically secure. Intel/AMD have had many bugs in their products in the past.
[1] really a small set of monocultures
- bryanlarsen 10y agoYup, should have included scare quotes around "virtually" and/or "hardened" to indicate that I was parroting marketing, not that I agreed.