anfilt

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1051.
by anfilt 9y ago
They had to partly reverse engineer the branch predictor. It was not fully documented...
1052.
by anfilt 9y ago
What the hell? What if the clothes where a gift. Also what if they bought them from thrift store. I have seen many times fancy designers clothes at thrift stores for pennies on the dollars. People keeping up with latest trends usually get r
1053.
Reverse-engineering FPGAs [video](media.ccc.de)
152 points by anfilt 9y ago|41 comments
1054.
by anfilt 9y ago
I am not saying any thing is wrong with that. I am saying it still runs on a server... So server-less is a misnomer.
1055.
by anfilt 9y ago
What is old is new again! Whoo-hoo. Regardless it's still not server-less... The entire system is still running off a server...
1056.
by anfilt 9y ago
--Note Most these questions here are rhetorical, but answer if you want.-- I agree words do mean things. Although, I would say putting someone in solitary confinement is an enactment of force. If that force destroys or damages their sanity
1057.
by anfilt 9y ago
True, but google is not searching there entire index for those. A simple linear search takes N time. So for a word that occurs billions of times. Google is not going to go through that entire list. They might use some clever hashing to jump
1058.
by anfilt 9y ago
I would not be surprised if google still has the data. Not sure how google handles things internally. However, google needs to pull up the results fast. So they might have 4 billion results with the word "water" in it. They only m
1059.
by anfilt 9y ago
Compress, and then encrypt can be quite devastating if the attacker can insert data into the encrypted payload. For instance, let's say I can insert any word into an encrypted message. Let's say I insert the word "THE".
1060.
by anfilt 9y ago
Perhaps, how I said that was a bit ambiguous/unclear. However, the article is calling it clever. The research demonstrates a weakness with the communication layer. Just because it applies to drones(insert buzz word) does not make it a
1061.
by anfilt 9y ago
My thought as well.
1062.
by anfilt 9y ago
Not sure if I would call it clever. Crypto will always leak the amount of data if you don't pad or ensure a constant data rate. Its also far from the first time compression has lead to a side channel. For instance https://en
1063.
by anfilt 9y ago
Run as fast you can. If they don't value what you say, and it may put you in a legal world of hurt it's time to jettison.
1064.
by anfilt 9y ago
Agree a Tiling window manager. Light weight too.
1065.
by anfilt 9y ago
You know business people of course someone probably will try. That recurring revenue stream is what they drool over.
1066.
by anfilt 9y ago
Assuming we can't structure a computer with your hypothetical required base-line. Then it may be impossible, but if our understanding is a physical process that means we should be able construct an other physical entity with your requi
1067.
by anfilt 9y ago
Meh, tried it a while ago. VSCode is better, but still a bloated piece of software. Glorified text editors that use megabytes of memory when running...
1068.
by anfilt 9y ago
I would agree. However, most websites start out as such a design image. Getting the markup for the design, and adding onto the generated html/css template could speed things up. -edit Also who is to say that it will not be able to do m
1069.
by anfilt 9y ago
Intel is affected by spectre as well though.
1070.
by anfilt 9y ago
What if I read the sites TLS/SSL keys? I could MITM the connection and inject JS to do more malcious thing. Or even easier get the ssh key for the VM. Then do what ever I want.
1071.
by anfilt 9y ago
This response is better than the corporate speak Intel put out regarding these vulnerabilities. Still light on details, but at least not the same kind of corporate drivel. AMD does not even mention Intel or ARM. While Intel did. Why is that
1072.
by anfilt 9y ago
Well there is spectre, and meltdown. Spectre is much more limited than meltdown. The patch AMD was referring to was for Meltdown. Spectre at least does not leak ring-0 memory. Sure it means that some application might be able to read/i
1073.
by anfilt 9y ago
Well he does say patches should written that don't treat all CPUs as crap. AMD had to basically say "Wait a moment! This does not affect our CPUs what are you doing Intel?"
1074.
by anfilt 9y ago
Let's try avoiding being pedants. Human language is quite squishy and imprecise anyways.
1075.
by anfilt 9y ago
Indeed. Although he did say: "... and that really means that all these mitigation patches should be written with "not all CPU's are crap" in mind."