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Wow, no one here has mentioned Johanna Rutkovska's (Invisible Things Lab & QubesOS), "Intel x86 Considered Harmful"? http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/201
by dlmetcalf 10y ago
Wow, no one here has mentioned Johanna Rutkovska's (Invisible Things Lab & QubesOS), "Intel x86 Considered Harmful"?
http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf
http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/10/27/x86_harmful.html http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/10/27/x86_harmful.html
Essential reading!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcwngbUrZNg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcwngbUrZNg
- dlmetcalf 10y agoSeriously, watch this ^. It's pretty much the canonical coverage of the topic.
- dcposch 10y agoJoanna is a hero. Also, I would give anything for a clean slate design that prioritized simplicity and transparency. We've been layering complicated crap under and on top of older complicated crap for so long that even professional engineers no longer understand exactly what happens when you push the power button. As long as that is true, we will never be secure.
- dlmetcalf 10y agoTotally agree. She's brilliant. Deepest respect to her. One of the extremely few people with genuine understanding of hardware security, who's working on the side of users & humanity. The first time I read her work, I was floored that I hadn't known of her earlier.