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Re:Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by ... by smhenderson on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:07PM (#20637249)
But surely there are a much smaller number of Unix computers running sendmail these days? And sendmail is a lot more secure now than it was 30 years ago. Doesn't seem like a fair comparison IMHO...
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Re:Side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs patched by ... by pjmlp on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:57PM (#20638972)
Enjoy the Google talks from Linux Kernel Summit 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfNt6MsLj0E&list=PLbzoR-pLrL...

68% of Linux kernel exploits in 2018 were caused by C's lack of features to handle memory corruption.

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