Google Publishes Latest Linux Patches So Only Trusted Tasks Share a Core

Re:Google Publishes Latest Linux Patches So Only Trusted Tas... by easytiger on Thursday November 19, 2020 @08:06AM (#25149061)

If you are doing anything that matters security wise on a shared host, you are doing it incorrectly, would be a thought

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Re:Google Publishes Latest Linux Patches So Only Trusted Tas... by codeulike on Thursday November 19, 2020 @08:35AM (#25149268)

If you are doing anything that matters security wise, you are doing it incorrectly

Amended. This seems to hold true in the long term.

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Re:Google Publishes Latest Linux Patches So Only Trusted Tas... by globular-toast on Thursday November 19, 2020 @12:29PM (#25151880)

If you are doing anything you are doing it incorrectly

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Re:Google Publishes Latest Linux Patches So Only Trusted Tas... by jedimastert on Thursday November 19, 2020 @08:17AM (#25149156)

You also be running an untrusted program on any other computer of your own, for whatever definition of "untrusted" you happen you subscribe to

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Re:Google Publishes Latest Linux Patches So Only Trusted Tas... by macksd on Thursday November 19, 2020 @08:39AM (#25149300)

One could also say the same of anything exposed on a shared network, or anything that has a USB port, because those have been the vectors of many attacks too.

There's a spectrum of risk people are willing to take and this provides another way to share a host but remain a little more isolated.

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Re:Google Publishes Latest Linux Patches So Only Trusted Tas... by gitweb on Thursday November 19, 2020 @09:14AM (#25149625)

Checkout GCP confidential computing.

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