Re:Building a More Secure World with the RISC-V ISA
by taf2 on Sunday January 07, 2018 @09:46AM
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We will always have bugs. The amount of money and resource efficiency we gain from sharing is too big to ignore. These issue will be addressed and yes more issues will be uncovered. Our sandboxes will get better, our kernels will harden and our CPU designs will improve. It’s actually not possible to throw our hands in the air and stop as you suggest. From every mistake we grow stronger because we don’t run away. It’s great that these issues have been uncovered. It sucks dealing with the fallout but that is only short term.
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Re:Building a More Secure World with the RISC-V ISA
by blattimwind on Sunday January 07, 2018 @03:00PM
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While this is acceptable for the average application, Meltdown and Spectre should have made it clear to even the last idiot that shared infrastructure is. not. suitable. for security critical applications. Especially not for critical cryptographic applications.
Re:Building a More Secure World with the RISC-V ISA
by pjmlp on Sunday January 07, 2018 @02:44PM
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We would have less of them if companies were liable like in other industries.
Re:Building a More Secure World with the RISC-V ISA
by taf2 on Sunday January 07, 2018 @09:10PM
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And we’d have less innovation... perhaps at some point that is what we decide we need and well that is one reason for us in the technology space to take security seriously to help keep from allowing regulation into industry... as they say it only takes one asshole to screw all up for the rest of us...
Re:Building a More Secure World with the RISC-V ISA
by pjmlp on Monday January 08, 2018 @01:13AM
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I fail to see why, given the innovation going in those industries, like cars, medical, building materials and so forth.
Creating IRC clones, UNIX clones, talk clones, FB clones is anything but innovation.