> That is not a valid security reason. Sorry.
>
Hogwash. It is when the machine doesn't run OpenBSD. Not all of mine
do. and I don't count on *any* vendor other than OpenBSD doing
anything like W^X on i386. (i.e. solaris, windows, etc.) I do expect
in the next year or two we will see stuff making use of the nx bit in
places where I redeploy some of these where I would not see that if I
had bought i386 only hardware - which means it may (if they
implemented it right) stop something from being exploited. We're a
university, When I buy this stuff it gets used in various capacities
untill it falls over from metal fatigue. I have to think 4-5 years
down the road, and what happens when people run crap (I.E. not
openbsd) on them.
-Bob
