Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:58:31 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: veldy@veldy.net Cc: glassfish@frogbox.dyndns.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Qmail + FreeBSD 4.3 Message-ID: <200105230058.HAA13422@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <019b01c0e2fe$eb384d40$3028680a@tgt.com> (veldy@veldy.net) References: <GLECJJEOFFBMALIKCDHIAEHKCAAA.glassfish@glassfish.net> <019b01c0e2fe$eb384d40$3028680a@tgt.com>
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Hi, As a good rule, hardware fails in the first hour after turning the power on for the first time, or it will fails some months/years later. Like anything, hardware do wear off, let say your CPU fan lightly slow down, it means CPU heat increase. Memory and card connectors are submitted to vibrations, even if not perceptible to human, so the contacts get oxyded (sp?). Examples could be multiple, it is not just disk mortors that fails. Best regards, olivier > Well bad hardware is less likely than its trying to overwrite memory it > doesn't own. If he is being attacked, and it is a buffer overflow exploit, > than overwriting memory it doesn't own is more likely than it being > repeatidly hardware, especially after his system has been working fine all > this time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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