bernhard Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) If you haven't heard about it yet you should read about these new vulnerabilities that affect almost any computer built since 1995 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability) https://insights.ubuntu.com/2018/01/04/ubuntu-updates-for-the-meltdown-spectre-vulnerabilities/ Edited January 7, 2018 by horst added <ironic> tags to the title 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Reading privileged memory with a side-channelhttps://googleprojectzero.blogspot.fr/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html Meltdown and Spectre Bugs in modern computers leak passwords and sensitive data.https://meltdownattack.com/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szabesz Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5mRwzVvFGE but we should not forget this one either: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/is-the-intel-management-engine-a-backdoor/ "Is the Intel Management Engine a backdoor? Yes, of course it is. By its very definition (from Wikipedia): A backdoor is a method, often secret, of bypassing normal authentication in a product, computer system, cryptosystem or algorithm etc. Backdoors are often used for securing unauthorized remote access to a computer, or obtaining access to plaintext in cryptographic systems." By definition Meltdown and Spectre are also backdoors, intentionally designed ones, btw. We are talking about hardware intentionally implemented to bypass security checks by design. It was just not "advertised". @bernhard Please change the title. I get the joke but it is quite misleading... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwired Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Quote Please change the title. I get the joke but it is quite misleading... I agree, it's bad humor with Processwire's credit. Seems to become a new habit as there was this one before:https://processwire.com/talk/topic/18058-two-things-wordpress-does-better-than-pw/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diogo Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 31 minutes ago, pwired said: I agree, it's bad humor with Processwire's credit. Seems to become a new habit as there was this one before:https://processwire.com/talk/topic/18058-two-things-wordpress-does-better-than-pw/ What's good humor for you? No humor? Give it a break guys... I think the "Finally" in the beginning of the sentence reveals it all immediately. @bernhard I liked the irony of adding the <ironic> tags 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernhard Posted January 7, 2018 Author Share Posted January 7, 2018 Seems that this pub is a little boring But I can live with the <ironic> tags 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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