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Offline Zac67

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Re: Amiga and security
« on: January 08, 2006, 10:29:15 AM »
Bad things:
- no security on user level: it's not possible to run a web server at non-root security settings (so even when compromised, it couldn't do much harm)
- no memory protection: there's no limit to what any compromised binary could do to the running system
- little attention from security experts, security flaws may go unnoticed for a long time

Good things:
- very exotic platform, so very little probability that a untargeted attack would find the right platform
- little probability security issues would even be explored by the experts

As long as you can't close the whole system for security (e.g. static content from a CDROM), I wouldn't run a server off of an Amiga.