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Re:Illumos to drop SPARC Support by schoen on Friday May 07, 2021 @03:25PM (#27079908)
> The dealbreaker problem remains a shared kernel attack surface between tenants.

Also, now, extremely subtle and hard-to-mitigate timing attacks between tenants.

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Re:Illumos to drop SPARC Support by tptacek on Friday May 07, 2021 @05:41PM (#27081171)
In fairness, that's an attack class that's very difficult to eradicate even with virtualization.
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