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Systrace In OpenBSD

February 8th, 2005 · No Comments

Just thought I’d mention a nice sample chapter from Secure Architectures with OpenBSD that’s been posted online.
It serves as a nice beginners tutorial for all you systrace n00bs out there. Excerpt:
The OpenBSD default system comes with a policy enforcement tool named systrace, which provides a way to monitor, intercept, and restrict system calls. The systrace […]

Tags: Security · OpenBSD

Round round round we go, where all that processor speed is nobody knows

February 8th, 2005 · No Comments

Peter Seebach has written another interesting piece at IBM Developerworks on where all that extra CPU power we have these days is going. Excerpt:
Computers are getting faster all the time, or so they tell us. But, in fact, the user experience of performance hasn’t improved much over the past 15 years. Peter looks at where […]

Tags: Hardware · Intel · IBM