[GTALUG] MP BIOS Toshiba - semi revival

[R. Russell Reiter]

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>And all of this falls out of deciding that when people say
>"reliability," they don't *really* mean that; they really mean
>"security."  And when they say "performance", they don't
>*really* mean that; they really meant to say "security"
>(even though they didn't, which ought to be a hint that
>it wasn't what they meant).

If it is a hint then open reasoning is on the table. There is a type of security in obscurity, as witnessed by the discovery of embedded exploits which, by needs, must be addressed by enterprise.

>
>Claim was made that Debian switched from using Bash
>as the default shell (!= "default login shell", by the way)
>"because security."  When the declared reasons didn't
>have the word "security" anywhere.
>
>But I guess that since *everything* is really computer
>security, then the plans must be already well under way
>for Debian to recompile everything, from the kernel to
>Grub to all the scripting engines during the boot
>process.

I'm not privy to the inner workings of Debian plans, but all the best planners, I think from the logistic perspective, work on failover and have a contingency for rapid deployment in case a primary plan doesn't work as expected and does indeed fail in service.

This is what government brings to the table that enterprise does not; the willingness to spend large amounts of money on two radically different plans with identical aims.

So if Debian does not have a fully formulated plan to have a compile at runtime OS, I'd bet there is a set of schema on someone's drawing board somewhere.

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