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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by gatmne on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:37PM (#16068079)
>RMS remains a rambling nutjob and none of this is really applicable to the issue at hand.

Ramblings that this industry has repeatedly proven to be correct, and continue to do so. I'd take his ramblings over a cheap ad hominem any day.

I encourage you to try being more civil the next time you comment on this site.

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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by nasredin on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:41AM (#16068835)
A "rambling nutjob" that has been proven correct time and time and time again.

We need more people with RMS-type views in Google, Facebook, etc.

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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by tarruda on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:18PM (#16066806)
The spectre attack is exploitable via javascript and there's no software patch that can fix it. IoW, it is not possible to safely run untrusted code in the same computer that has sentitive information.
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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by djsumdog on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:18AM (#16068432)
Well he was right about the Intel ME vulnerabilities
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