If you ever worry that your industry doesn't have it together and your company doesn't know what they're doing and you in particular are nearly drowning in your current position because of all there is to learn...
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Just remember that Intel made CPUs for nearly a quarter-century that had fundamentally flawed memory protection allowing any process of any security level to read all memory.
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This reminder brought to you by a security notice released for a PRINTERpic.twitter.com/j6JNhI6jEZ
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WARNING: one process (you know, like a computer program?) running on your printer ( the thing that puts ink on paper) could use security vulnerabilities in out-of-order-execution (needed to speed up x86's weird instruction set) to steal data from the kernel (OF THE PRINTER!)
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I love the future and how great everything is now but I sometimes remember very fondly when printers were things where you sent them 8 bits over a parallel port and they made a print head move across some paper and poke an ink ribbon at it
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it was slow, noisy, and not networked, but I never had to worry about updating the firmware on my printer to prevent authorized users from hacking secret data out of my printer's OS
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The printer could break in a very limited number of ways. 1. no paper 2. paper jammed 3. no ink 4. not turned on 5. not plugged in
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it very rarely broke in ways like "someone used a guest account to exploit spectre vulnerabilities and snooped the root password and installed a logger that exfiltrates all my printouts over wifi to china"
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You know, in
@cstross's novel Rule 34, someone's 3D printer is hacked with ransomware that causes it to just print realistic penises until you pay up. I thought that was funny but I never really considered HOW FUCKING PLAUSIBLE THAT IS4 replies 49 retweets 174 likesShow this thread
Yeah but you’re hitting all of them in parallel for less money than it takes IT to spin up a process on a decision. “Look I’m not telling you this but just scan the QR code on your iPhone and pay like they tell you to then expense. Done in 5 minutes, or we can replace in 6wks.”
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