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by qb45 11y ago
I would love to see what Linus thinks about this post today.
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by qb45 11y ago
Put the computer in transparent case and replace HDD top cover with glass :)
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by qb45 11y ago
I think it works perfectly on all architectures capable of executing 16-bit x86 code :)
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by qb45 11y ago
Not limited to Haswell and early Broadwell, some Skylake CPUs lost TSX as well. https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/44k218/intel_disa... Also some Skylake i5s and i7s had TSX issues, but I don&#x2
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by qb45 11y ago
Well, the first three words of the paper are "biases against women". I'm looking forward for unbiased research on bias research bias :)
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by qb45 11y ago
Yes, I meant Linux on PS3.
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by qb45 11y ago
Intel Transactional Synchronization Extension. When it works, you get support for database-like transactions on RAM (only small transactions, it isn't black magic). When it fails, you get all kinds of random crashes at random times. In
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by qb45 11y ago
> Are you saying that bypassing the bootloader with a live USB, etc, could give an attacker access to the data stored on the encrypted drive (outside of the boot partition, of course)? No, of course not. (Well, disregarding cold boot att
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by qb45 11y ago
> don't assume it will work or will stick around forever. I agree with the first part, but no with the second. I don't like manufacturers deliberately breaking products which have already been sold, especially in cases when the
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by qb45 11y ago
Even if not advertised, it was known to OC. Some people bought it for this purpose and they surely won't be happy.
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by qb45 11y ago
> What happens when this microcode patch is applied at runtime on an overclocked CPU? Paradox :) Probably it'll reset conveniently so that you can restore default BIOS settings. They can't let it run because that wouldn't
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by qb45 11y ago
It once occurred to me that it's possible to encrypt the disk completely and put bootloader/kernel/etc on a flash drive attached to your keyring (the physical kind). Then it all boils down to BIOS security. With physical WP p
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by qb45 11y ago
Maybe something has changed after this article, I'm not going to make such claims anymore without verification. However, you have to understand that when I posted this, I knew about cases (including TFA) when the problem had indeed bee
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by qb45 11y ago
Frankly, those animations are so simple that they could be replaced with static images (the first one would need a split in two). This way I can choose which one to watch simply by moving my eyeballs or maybe scrolling in case of small scre
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by qb45 11y ago
Maybe addictiveness was a bad word. I was under impression that rewarding people for patiently watching your animations may be an attempt at exploiting Sunken Cost Fallacy or even just giving them some time to forget about the rest of the w
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by qb45 11y ago
> Animation makes this even worse, because the user has to sit and wait while the site slowly delivers information in animated word-sized chunks. This is exactly what pissed me off within the first 3 seconds, that there is no way to see
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by qb45 11y ago
I've seen similar websites done for my former high school and former employee. I think in both cases it was webmasters showing off and justifying their existence combined with website owners being impressed by their 1337-skillz and may
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by qb45 11y ago
Not OP, but I think the "let the nerds build" quote may have referred to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10238132
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by qb45 11y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to use btrfs snapshotting for that.
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by qb45 11y ago
Something like unionfs/overlayfs, which are the magic allowing Linux Live CDs to "modify" files and directories stored on read-only medium. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/o
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by qb45 11y ago
> If you have a secure enclave within the device, then any hardware which has a direct connection to that secure enclave must be authenticated. Consider reading the description of iOS security features linked somewhere in this thread. Be
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by qb45 11y ago
> This is irrelevant. The problem is that those affected phones could still have had compromised fingerprint sensors. ... which wouldn't be used after the phone determines it's an aftermarket part. Equally well the attacker may
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by qb45 11y ago
Maybe they want to move encryption onto the sensor chip in future generations, because the scheme you described is indeed a joke. But to be honest, it's not like fingerprints are such a hard to obtain secret in the first place.
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by qb45 11y ago
That's what Stalin said. But since parent was being sarcastic, yes, Stalinism is about being considerate.
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by qb45 11y ago
Not quite sure who is downvoting that. Looks like a decent article for people who aren't like "yeah, nothing new here" after seeing the first diagram. edit: wtf, I love you people.
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by qb45 11y ago
Like, they never blocked your account for logging in from abroad? My first account is still in zombie state because it can't be closed without sending them scans of some papers I couldn't care less about sending (and didn't h
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by qb45 11y ago
FYI, there is no mention of "risk" in the submitted article, it's purely about copyright policing. You appear to be responding to misinformation posted by some commenters here.
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by qb45 11y ago
In the context of payment processors, "risky transaction" means fraud. People are criticizing you because it looks like you wrote your first post without understanding the issue and now try to defend it by altering its meaning thr
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by qb45 11y ago
> The Touch ID sensor has access to the iPhone Security Enclave, where fingerprint data is kept. A malicious sensor could, hypothetically, steal fingerprints from an iPhone user unknowingly. No, the CPU reads encrypted data from the sens
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by qb45 11y ago
It's a well known issue and every independent repairmen will warn you before replacing this part or else they would quickly get sued out of existence.

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