Also, Yahoo didn't choose security, and hundreds of millions got hacked, and Yahoo acquisition price tanked. Hopefully, we are past needing more wake-up calls. (*laughs*.. *cries*)https://twitter.com/benadida/status/948991695374270469 …
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It may or may not have practical impacts, but the way some anti-virus software is blocking or slowing these critical security updates should also be a wake-up call. Security has to come from architecturally as deeply as possible; add-ons can actually make things worse.
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Also, who named these exploits? The names are


and so correctly evocative of the issues raised by the two different but related structural issues. Spectre haunting all modern chips... The Intel meltdown... Sometimes geek poetry is real poetry. :-DShow this thread -
This is a fairly accessible explanation of
#meltdown by@pwnallthethings. (Yes, it has a tiny bit of code but you can follow along if this stuff interests you).#Spectre is more subtle; will post if I find an accessible explainer. https://medium.com/@pwnallthethings/time-travelling-exploits-with-meltdown-1189548f1e1d …pic.twitter.com/9cRWfPnSVB
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Update, folks. Update your software. Best defense. Lots of people are working hard to rollout
#spectre#meltdown mitigations. (Many updates were out much earlier! But no protection till you update!)https://twitter.com/aprilmpls/status/949053354642235392 …Show this thread -
Just tried to describe
#Spectre to a completely non-technical person, finally ended up saying it’s like, umm, platform 9¾ on King’s Cross. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯pic.twitter.com/czMiMpa23W
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In some ways AMD chose security, and the market didn’t reward that.
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Did they *choose* security, or did they just happen to choose the option that turned out to be more secure? If they chose security, where are the whitepapers disclosing the risk of the approach taken by Intel/Apple/ARM?
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So, should we all be using Signal?
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