Posted in How safe is VMware's hypervisor?
Posted Friday 28th March 2008 02:54 GMT
World perfect
software is only ever completely perfect, secure and stable in one place: marketing literature.
anything created by humans has flaws, because humans can not imagine every possible use case, over an indefinite period of time (easy example: the creators of SMTP failed to design for spam). if one starts with that assumption, a VM is just another target to compromise. just like antivirus/security apps, a virtualized environment can provide a more effective way to hide malware.
the bullet point was likely (hopefully) produced by the marketing department, because if their engineering team came up with that clanger, they need to hire some less optimistic code jockeys, soonest.
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