kevvok

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1. 31.▲
   by kevvok 3y ago

   Interestingly, a CVE has been assigned for this issue: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-49298
2. 32.▲
   by kevvok 3y ago

   Has Qualcomm ever engaged in significant semi-custom work? Yes, the early generations of Snapdragon SoCs were built using a custom ARMv7 core called Scorpion, which was later succeeded by another v7 core called Krait. The first ARMv8 SoC
3. 33.▲
   by kevvok 3y ago

   Algorithms using elliptic curves can also be broken using Shor’s algorithm
4. 34.▲
   by kevvok 4y ago

   Even just XORing the address with a hardcoded, pseudorandom bit pattern would have alleviated the issue. Yeah, that's in the same vein as Seznec's 'skew-associative' cache where a cache line would be either direct mapp
5. 35.▲
   by kevvok 5y ago

   I’m not sure how much I buy their claim that ZFS being COW is worse for SSDs given SSDs themselves are COW to allow for wear-leveling because they have to erase whole blocks and rewrite them if even one byte is changed
6. 36.▲
   IMP4GT: IMPersonation Attacks in 4G NeTworks(andreafortuna.org)

   2 points by kevvok 7y ago|0 comments
7. 37.▲
   by kevvok 7y ago

   Really demonstrates why “security through obscurity” is no security at all.
8. 38.▲
   by kevvok 7y ago

   Exactly! I’ve dealt with multiple real-time embedded platforms that have a log output channel that is waaay more convenient to use via printfs than hooking up a whole debug apparatus.