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Has anyone made a law about this sort of thing yet? If not I'll have it: Axons Law - Any sufficiently fast optimisation will be repurposed as an attack vector
by stuaxo 3y ago
Has anyone made a law about this sort of thing yet?
If not I'll have it:
Axons Law - Any sufficiently fast optimisation will be repurposed as an attack vector.
- vacuity 3y agoTime to write a comprehensive paper titled "Optimizations Considered Harmful". Seriously though, it's distressing how we have Spectre and Meltdown and whatnot. We've gone too far trying to squeeze every drop of performance out of hardware (Electron is for balance, of course /s) and now we pay the price.
- josefx 3y ago> Time to write a comprehensive paper titled "Optimizations Considered Harmful". Apparently the other browsers went with "don't inject untrusted third party code into a site".
- chromoblob 3y agoProblem is not in optimization but in leaking time.
- treyd 3y agoThe problem really seems to be with running arbitrary untrusted code.