> > Oh I get it. > > > > No you don't. > > > You can use a "trust relationship with your > > administrators" to get around the fact that Sun sold a piece of > > hardware which does not provide the isolation they promised in their > > white papers and documentation. > > > > It is a bug. What you seem to be unable to grasp is that you can > configure the officially supported operating system to mitigate the > effects of that bug. I guess you don't want to accept that because it > diminishes the size of the problem. Oh you can avoid the problem by using only the vendor recommended configurations! Or so you think. A Solaris kernel module could trigger exactly the same bug. You'll see... you'll see.... You demand too little from your vendors; you probably get very little as a result..