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2018-01-11 10:57 am

Hardware vulnerabilities

"Child," said Aslan, "did I not explain to you once before that no one is ever told what would have happened?"
--C.S. Lewis, Voyage of the Dawntreader

Apparently, not always so. The Meltdown and Spectre attacks are interesting and clever exploits of speculative execution, a trick we are using to execute programs more quickly.

An internet-connected device isn't like a house: it has to be a fortress, because it is much harder to prosecute attackers, due to the relatively high anonymity and jurisdiction-crossing freedom of online attacks.
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2010-04-29 10:14 am
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2006-12-31 11:32 am
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ganked from [livejournal.com profile] siderea

An alarming anaysis of proposed DRM measures in Windows Vista.

I will not be buying Vista until I'm convinced that this shit is not going to screw me over.

Hey, anybody interested in a startup idea? If this really happens, how about creating a company to build open-source hardware? (No, it won't let you view premium content, sorry. At least, not unless you use an illegal patch for an FPGA core!)