Mike Larkin

@mlarkin2012

Kernel hacker. Peakbagger. Private Pilot. Founder/CTO

South Lake Tahoe, CA
Joined December 2011

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    📝 We compiled a Software Supply Chain Reading List Which ones have you read? Full list:

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    May 19
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    May 19

    case insensitive string comparisons in C - we all eventually replace the libc functions.

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    May 19

    Acc to Mark Willis, with all the global crises, "extra attention [is] rightly being paid to professionals and what they need to do to protect companies against ." Read his recos via

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    May 19

    Our paper "Finding and Exploiting CPU Features using MSR Templating" got accepted at S&P'22! Together with we analyze the effects of MSRs on system security and show our findings in six case studies. Paper:

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    May 19

    Do you want to present your related work to colleagues in Vienna and worldwide in september? The 2022 proposals period runs for another week (May 26). Go to and follow the links to submit!

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    May 18

    If SIMD registers are used in interrupt handlers, apparently will leak host register secret values into arbitrary guest VM processes. On 5.18 this takes the form of secret intermediate cryptographic hash values leaking into the guest.

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    Install OpenBSD.

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    May 16

    FreeBSD 13.1 released! Upgrade to OpenBSD 7.1 today! ☺️

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    The talks submission period runs for another ten days, so if you've been mulling a submission, mull no more, go to and follow the obvious links to submit!

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    May 15

    It's Monday. In ten days, the 2022 Call for participation closes, with the program to be announced June 1st. The conference is set for Vienna (Wien) September 15-18. Go to and follow the links to submit your work!

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    May 15

    The WiSec'22 conference will have live streams! Conference is about Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks.

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    May 15

    High-performance QEMU tracing of all PCs and memory accesses (read/write + addr + size + value read/written). Capable of doing about 2 x86 cycles/MIPS instruction with full tracing. Here's a cool demo video of watching all memory accesses in real-time!

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    May 14

    Important to note that the conference will be in-person in Vienna. It’s a lovely city!

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    May 14

    In 12 days, an important European event: May 26th The call for papers ends, with acceptance or otherwise by June 1st. Get yours in now! Go to and follow links.

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    May 13

    Just published "The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug" ... a hardware mystery starring the Apple M1🦸‍♀️

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