OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/24617/Facebook_Open_Sources_its_Servers_Data_Centers Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:30 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com security risk of opening? http://www.osnews.com/thread?469572 http://www.osnews.com/thread?469572 Is there a security risk with opening up your designs, be they software or datacentre infrastructure?

Bad people can look at your code/designs and exploit what they find?

Surely they're handing the baddies sweets on a plate? Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (project_2501) Comments RE: security risk of opening? http://www.osnews.com/thread?469573 http://www.osnews.com/thread?469573 I would think there's a lot less at risk with hardware, since a lot of Facebook's innovations are around ease of maintenance and energy consumption. What would be of interest to a black hat isn't really interesting in this case because it's vanilla x86. Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David) Comments RE: security risk of opening? http://www.osnews.com/thread?469576 http://www.osnews.com/thread?469576 I didn't see anything earth-shattering, mostly just stuff like:

switch (app.name)
{
case "FarmVille":
sendToBigIron(app);
break;
case "Mafia Wars":
sendToUnixServers(app);
break;
default:
sendToCelerons(app);;
} Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fretinator) Comments what? http://www.osnews.com/thread?469583 http://www.osnews.com/thread?469583 Why would anybody expect facebook to powered by arm chips? Are there even any arm servers shipping yet? Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (broken_symlink) Comments lol http://www.osnews.com/thread?469626 http://www.osnews.com/thread?469626 Facebook? Open? Ha. Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wodenhelm) Comments shared its software code http://www.osnews.com/thread?469627 http://www.osnews.com/thread?469627 When did Facebook release source code and what was it for? Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (metalf8801) Comments RE: shared its software code http://www.osnews.com/thread?469639 http://www.osnews.com/thread?469639
When did Facebook release source code and what was it for?


Quite a lot actually...see here: http://developers.facebook.com/opensource/ Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chekr) Comments RE: security risk of opening? http://www.osnews.com/thread?469749 http://www.osnews.com/thread?469749
Is there a security risk with opening up your designs, be they software or datacentre infrastructure?


Only if it's a bad design.

Bad people can look at your code/designs and exploit what they find?


See previous answer.

Surely they're handing the baddies sweets on a plate?


See previous answer. Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments RE: what? http://www.osnews.com/thread?469758 http://www.osnews.com/thread?469758 I wasn't sure. ARM wants to be in this market that is for sure. So I checked, I did found them:

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/ZT-Systems-R1801e-/

While I was looking I also found this statement by ARM:

"However, that will take time, East said, predicting that ARM won’t start to eat into Intel’s dominant server market share until 2014 or so."

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/ARMs-Warren-East-touts-serv... Edited 2011-04-09 23:58 UTC Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lennie) Comments