How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst' chip flaw

Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by starsinspace on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:14PM (#16074155)

Depends on the target audience.

For example, Haiku most probably won't get around to implement KPTI any time soon. But then again, most people consider it more of a fun/hobby OS[0] anyway, so it wouldn't matter that much.

[0] And that isn't meant negatively at all, I actually think the computing landscape would be way more fun again if there were many more projects like it again. Not every OS needs to try and be an everything-OS, and not every OS needs to follow the "always online, everything through the internet" paradigm. If the most interesting use-cases are entirely offline, most of today's popular attack vectors cease to exist.

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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by waddlesplash on Thursday January 04, 2018 @08:13PM (#16075673)

Haiku has run all GUI applications as root since forever, so as soon as you got RCE you could install a rogue keylogging driver silently. Obviously fixing that is higher up on the priority list than KPTI... and it's unclear when we'll get around to that, even. :(

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Re:How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst... by userbinator on Thursday January 04, 2018 @07:51PM (#16075554)

...and don't forget TempleOS, which follows the philosophy/religion of deliberately running everything in ring0 and one address space, because it believes the user should have full control over everything in the system.

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