Conspiracy of the day
Conspiracy of the day
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Anyone here following the increasingly alarming Intel/Minix/Management Engine debacle?
No such thing as a secure computer, apparently*
https://www.theregister.co.uk/20…
* One would presume ARM likely has a similarly broadly-described attack vector.
- computers are one thing. the other is the network
https://motherboard.…uan - This has been known for a while. People are trying to build patches for this.mugwart
- That 'only' includes stuff written whilst the particular browser tab's highlighted though - Javascript can't read gloibal inputs... right?detritus
- Its all in memory so I'm sure its just a case of searching for tabs etc open there.mugwart
- This means so much as VPN's etc mean jack shit when they are just reading your memory and emailing it out. cuntsmugwart
- Surely addressed memory spaces are invisible to each other though? Isn't that a fundamental of how [modern, secure-ish] computers function?detritus
- computers are one thing. the other is the network