Which Red Hat?

Mon Feb 17 21:54:34 PST 2003

Quoting J C Lawrence (claw at kanga.nu):

[buffer overflows, non-x86 architectures]

> Not really.  They're still a problem, its just that the exploits
> commonly found on cracker sites tend to be written with x86 in mind
> and don't adapt cleanly to other platforms. 

I wish I could refer you to it specifically, but I recall a fairly
convincing paper explaining why PPC in particular doesn't really have a
problem, for reasons inherent to the architecture rather than just a
matter of popularity.  Sorry, but I don't have it handy.

> Alpha based Multias are another fairly readily available solution.  

They are reported to run hot, though.

> SGI Indy's (the purple mini-towers) also tend to be readily available
> and extra NICs for them are cheap enough.

I've seen those around, and wouldn't mind having one.  They're
reasonable-sized, if not nowhere near as compact as NetWinders.

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