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Re: Genesi selects IBM PowerPC for Performance-intensive Peg
« on: December 04, 2003, 08:23:28 PM »
@Wayne:

Well, to be perfectly fair that reads like a press release for an all-purpose computer, not a custom security solution (if all I want is a strong firewall, what do i care about all the OSs I can run on it and what impact it's going to have on hobbyists?)

That said, his emphasis on "PowerPC is not x86 and therefore more secure" is a bit naive.  Security should be based on strong software auditing procedures (ie go over your code with a magnifying glass to make sure there are no buffer overflows, use of software complexity metrics, etc), not some vague assertion that the script kiddies won't know how to r00t a PPC box.  Sooner or later they will, and a determined hacker won't be put off by a different instruction set.