Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot
by myth_drannon on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @06:53PM
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Faulty vehicle it's a potential accident with multiple casualities vs a hacked computer with potential loss of your private emails or whatever.
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Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot
by timonovici on Thursday January 11, 2018 @08:02AM
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What if that computer is running something critical, say a reactor, and elevator or some device in a hospital? Computers are everywhere these days... Todays proof-of-concept becomes tommorow's metasploit module - and could cause large damage even in incompetent people's hands.