[xp84]

I’m picturing a long 50’ aisle filled with racks and a guy with a huge box marked “replacement CPUs” and a screwdriver.

Good lord, can you imagine how long just a few of those would take in a data center?

[acomjean]

I remember coming to work one morning and having staff at two tables with boxes of RSA keys, and swapping everyones...

(they replaced 40 million of those things..)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/06/rsa-f...

[lanstin]

The old every CPU is sacred idea lives on.