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Re:I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero by flaminHotSpeedo on Thursday December 18, 2025 @10:37AM (#46313976)
Yeah, in some (rare) situations physical isolation is a more appropriate level of security. Or if you want to land somewhere in between, you can use VM's with single tenant NUMA nodes.

But for a typical case, VM's are the bare minimum to say you have a _secure_ isolation boundary because the attack surface is way smaller.

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Re:I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero by vel0city on Thursday December 18, 2025 @10:51AM (#46314202)
Yeah, so secure.

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notific...

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5183

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12130

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2698

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-4936

In the end you need to configure it properly and pray there's no escape vulnerabilities. The same standard you applied to containers to say they're definitely never a security boundary. Seems like you're drawing some pretty arbitrary lines here.

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