Re: Sun M-class hardware denial of service

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On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 08:36:17PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> 
> 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.

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