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Conveniently computers are getting orders of magnitude faster and cheaper, while the software on them - by virtue of complexity - has an increasing attack surfa
by peteretep 11y ago
Conveniently computers are getting orders of magnitude faster and cheaper, while the software on them - by virtue of complexity - has an increasing attack surface.
I will happily trade a video player utilising 4% of my CPU power and with fewer potential vulnerabilities than one using 0.4%.
- nitrogen 11y agoWhen it comes to video encoding, the tradeoff is often between encoding live video or not encoding live video. I think there's also an important tradeoff to be made in how much of a carbon footprint we dedicate to software. I really don't think we should be trying to make software expand to consume all available resources. We have to be both efficient and secure.
- Too 11y agoEven when you are on a mobile device constrained by battery?