I finally get it... LEE! YOU ARE A FUCKING GENIUS!!!!!
Hey everyone... In Mr. Lammert's world, as long as NOBODY is trying to break the system, VMs give a HUGE security plus! Problem is, there are a lot of very bad motherfuckers out there who ARE trying to break the system. So, when someone starts talking about security, excuse the hell out of me for automatically thinking you mean security from those bad guys, apparently you are talking about security from the damn sheep who couldn't break the system if their lives depended on it so they don't even try. dude, if you take security in the context of people trying to break the system (and we always are, fuck the sheep) you have to take a MUCH larger view than what you are taking. Suddenly things like "To VM or not to VM" become a very serious question. Ntpd, OpenNTPD, or rsync? Intel? AMD? SPARC? The question of having one server or segregating into individual servers is a question that you poke and prod until it's bloody. The permutations are endless and to focus on one idea SO SMALL as "the sheep won't be able to crash the VM so it must be more secure" is like saying the onions in the soup aren't poison so the rest of the ingredients must be ok. There ISN'T multiple viewpoints on security. There is one. And it encompasses everything, every topic, every idea, even the very essence of the universe. It has to, because if you leave any little part out, you have failed. Oh... and really, you have to take into account the sheep too... you would be surprised at what they can do to a system without even trying. Just once have a UNIX system that a Jr admin setup go down because Thelma the new secretary was trying to figure out how to get AOL installed and working right.
