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Securely renting out your CPU with Linux

Posted Jan 27, 2005 7:03 UTC (Thu) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165)
Parent article: Securely renting out your CPU with Linux

Why is this being shoe-horned in? Are people asking for this junk?

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Consider plug-ins

Posted Jan 27, 2005 7:57 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

To me the patch sounds like something that could have lots of other uses besides renting CPU:s. For example, it might enable a secure "ActiveX-like" native code plug-in system for browsers (or other extendable apps). The plug-in would communicate only through file descriptors open at the time it is called, and would be completely unable to mess with anything else (unlike a Windows ActiveX control).