A laptop wandering around a city sending out an eMail attack from different WiFi locations could be very difficult to stop. Several laptops wandering around a city would be just nasty. Adam Maloney wrote: >I'm having trouble understanding the danger here. This is already a >common hosting solution (albeit, not with Cygwin). FreeBSD and Linux both >have software that let you run multiple virtual machines on the same >physical hardware. And there's vmware of course. IBM has >enterprise-class servers that can run hundreds or thousands of unique >instances of Linux (or AIX) on one server. IBM calls this LPAR - Logical >Partitioning. Sun also has something similar, although I don't remember >what they call their flavor. > >Hosting companies like it because they can give a customer full control >over their virtual machine, and they can't influence any other customers. >You can buy 1 biggie-sized server and charge customers a premium rate for >"virtual server" instead of "virtual host". > >This is actually more difficult to do mass-hacking versus virtual >webhosting with Apache or IIS. Since you need to break into X machines to >deface X websites, rather than breaking into 1 machine to deface a bunch >of sites. And since each machine is it's own instance of Linux, it will >likely be running different software and be patched at a different level. > >Granted, you have the problem that you can take out all of these virtual >servers if the 1 machine goes down - but you have the same problem with >virtual webhosting already. And you wouldn't be running 1000 instances of >Linux on a big Pentium box. No, this would be a 32-way IBM p690, or a >106-way SunFire 15k (drool). You need to lose a lot of components before >the whole system chokes. > > > >>Vanishing websites at the click of the (X) >>Virus distributors, script kiddies, crackers of the worst kind could >>really kick some serious butt. And with WiFi coming in to its own we >>could have all sorts of problems. >> >>Sam >> >> >> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list