alt Hacker NewsAnother breathless fearmongering. "threatens"? No, I don't think network booting is even all that common outside of extremely niche scenarios.
Instead, it applies only to organizations with machines that boot from local networks, or conceivably from Internet-connected resources.
Who is PXE-booting over the open Internet!?
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kg • today at 5:43 AM
> No, I don't think network booting is even all that common outside of extremely niche scenarios.
It's incredibly common though? I've run across it and I work on games and client software, not server stuff.
loeg • today at 7:42 AM
> Another breathless fearmongering.
It's Ars; you come to expect it.
Several large bare-metal hosting companies. Not over the open Internet, but that doesn't matter if the management networks are shared and the price of admission a single server rental.