Any computer can be a server if it is insufficiently secure.
@neil Logging onto my file server

@neil People kept asking me why I insisted "secure" was part of dependable compute (along reliability, availability, etc).

"Because an insecure system is highly available, just not to you."

@larsmb @neil
Dev and PM alike need to design for security NFRs.
@neil I learned this the hard way, maybe 15 years ago, when my hard drive was weirdly short of storage space, and I found that a hidden partition had been created that was storing warez.
@Amoshias @neil how would you find this on a mac?
@qob @neil no idea :-) never used one

@neil

You are a modern Keats. This is nearly the equivalent of the first line of Endymion.

May I suggest, however, a minor edit *à la* Strunk's Rule 13 (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style/Principles#13._Omit_needless_words.)

Any computer can be a server if <s>it is</s> insufficiently secure.

The Elements of Style/Principles - Wikisource, the free online library

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I'm a very insecure person, Neil.
Can I be a server?

@neil

I’m so old that whenever I hear the word “server” I immediately think of this:

https://youtu.be/mZz5fEn-TcM?si=OfkYil3gXZFTPybm

Wilma and Betty sing "The Car Hop Song" | The Flintstones S1E13 (1960)

YouTube
@neil I'm 100% secure...my services only listen on 0.0.0.0 and I can't even connect to that address on the same subnet!
@neil All machines are smoke machines if etc etc…
@neil "Any computer can be a server if it has Portal installed..."