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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] protection against resource exhaustion
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:22:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9de1c1a7963c01daa11a516f3117a0c2@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A97D4AC3-3160-448A-BAAE-562FD1529B6C@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp>

> if any one has cleaner solution, i.e., a solution that never kill innocent process,
> I want to see it.

I have an almost mathematical certainty that the human factor is by
far the greatest contributor to the problem and solving any technical
issue would be insignificant by comparison.  Like any other form of
security, the trade offs are what count.

Bloating Plan 9 with feeble attempts to shelter the system against
malicious users is, in my opinion, too expensive.

Lucio.




  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-28  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-25  6:16 arisawa
2015-01-25  6:59 ` mischief
2015-01-25 17:41   ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-26 11:47     ` arisawa
2015-01-26 12:46       ` cinap_lenrek
2015-01-26 14:13       ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-27  0:33         ` arisawa
2015-01-27  1:30           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-01-27  4:13             ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-27  4:22           ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-27  7:03             ` arisawa
2015-01-27  7:10               ` Ori Bernstein
2015-01-27  7:15                 ` lucio
2015-01-27 14:05                 ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-27  7:12               ` lucio
2015-01-27 14:10               ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-28  0:10                 ` arisawa
2015-01-28  3:38                   ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-28  6:50                     ` arisawa
2015-01-28  7:22                       ` lucio [this message]
2015-01-28  7:48                       ` Quintile
2015-01-28 13:13                       ` cinap_lenrek
2015-01-28 14:03                         ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-28 14:09                           ` lucio
2015-01-28 14:14                             ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-28 14:53                               ` lucio
2015-01-28 17:02                                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-01-28 14:16                       ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-28 17:28                       ` Charles Forsyth
2015-01-28 17:39                         ` cinap_lenrek
2015-01-28 18:51                           ` Charles Forsyth
2015-01-29  3:57                             ` arisawa
2015-01-29  6:34                               ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-29  6:42                         ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-29  8:11                           ` arisawa
2015-01-27 10:53             ` Charles Forsyth
2015-01-27 14:01               ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-25  9:04 ` arisawa
2015-01-25 11:06   ` Bence Fábián

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