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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by jerf on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:38PM (#16073859)
That might be a bit of an overreaction. But I will concede this is a close as I've ever seen this get to reality: http://ansible.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html

Which is really sequel to the short story: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm , and which is followed up with http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-of... (the "FAQ" I linked above is in between those two things).

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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by lisper on Thursday January 04, 2018 @09:27PM (#16075998)
You left out the real-life version:

https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html

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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by mindcrime on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:48PM (#16073939)
It also calls to mind the idea of the "blipvert" from Max Headroom.
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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by DanBC on Thursday January 04, 2018 @07:07PM (#16075326)
I love the fact that every now and again Blit gets mentioned on HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=blit%20infinityplus&sort=byPop...

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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by JeremyBanks on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:50PM (#16074388)
I think the parallel's a bit of a stretch, but I really enjoyed the story, so thanks for sharing.
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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by jerf on Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:08PM (#16074542)
I agree it's a stretch, but it's a fun link.

The parallel I see is that this is as close to anything I've ever seen in this industry to having to start so far back again. I very much suspect that we're going to be playing cat and mouse with timing attacks for the next 10 years, while pie-in-the-sky research projects just get started more-or-less today that will finally fix it.

The Mill CPU people have popped up a few times today... they seem to have an interesting opportunity here.

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