Re: secure computing for 2.6.7

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> However as said boinc and seti would better start using it too.

Thinking about it some more, I'm not convinced they can.

After all, they need to get new data to perform calculations
on, and pass the results of previous calculations on to the
server.

In order to do that, the user needs to run code that's not
restricted by seccomp. Taking that into account, what's the
point ?

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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