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Nice! A while back I had started something similar for Azure but it never really got traction (or nearly as polished as this!). It's a rough proof of concept but maybe it'll be use…

Past work in the area by the folks at Immunant ( https://immunant.com/ ) that appears to be on-going https://github.com/immunant/c2rust . I think the project was also DARPA funded …

I got a panicked call from my parents when Facebook deleted my brother's profile, probably 5 or 6 years after he passed away. After looking into just trying to get the profile rest…

I've been off work for two weeks to recover from surgery, and have been playing with a couple projects throughout the day between rest and physical therapy: - A home-rolled router/…

Yeah it's a building block for understanding number theory well, which is important in cryptography.

Relatively common nowadays. It used to be delineated as a feature in Intel chips as part of their vPro line, but I think it’s baked in. Generally an IOMMU is needed for performant …

It's probably no longer maintained, but a former colleague of mine did some work on this for C++: https://github.com/ainfosec/shoulder . Obviously if the docs are lying it doesn't …

I get the reaction, but what about the trust factor of a box you own and have running on the other side of the world? TPM isn’t an evil concept, it’s fairly useful for some scenari…

It's been probably 2 years since I've messed with it, but I was still using the tarball download for Xen in OpenEmbedded builds.

As someone noted above the Commercial Solutions for Classified program has been in existence for a long while (probably over a decade). This package is newer but not wildly newer. …

My old team did some work in this area a few years ago. We got the Talos II BMC code to be binary reproducible, and had a go at automating David A. Wheeler's compiler diversificati…

At least in NY (and probably true of state/local politics in general) this is not necessarily true. These third parties often will choose a D or R that align with their policy goal…

SB is definitely imperfect, but a useful tool in moving toward a trusted boot. I think we'd all agree having a trusted boot sequence is desirable, the point of contention being who…

I think you're largely correct but Google isn't one person so there may be somewhat emergent patterns that work from an SEO standpoint that don't have a solid answer to Why. If I w…

What do you suspect will be the practical uses of this? Could it help researchers run experiments to develop better fertility protocols? Or depending on costs, fertility clinics co…

Someone already did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32498435 Overall the timeline doesn't seem implausible to me.

A friend of mine and I explored a similar offering. We've mostly put it on a shelf as it was very duct taped together and we're both short on time. We don't have any monetization p…

I'm always a little shocked when I see someone who isn't keeping personal and work devices (and accounts) very intentionally separate.

The flip side of that is it does cost some money to run a monastery, and there aren't a lot of a modern opportunities for them to make money. Nothing wrong with them keeping their …

I saw you present a version of this in probably 2016 or so at little security conference in DC (maybe platform security conference?). Anyhow your talk was a huge deal for defense c…

Because it is open source. It's not Free Open Source Software (FOSS) as deemed by some foundation or another. There is a lot of great open source software not included in Linux bec…

OT: You can do that with Qt. We played with implementing it ourselves for a project about 10 years ago. Since then I think there is an official QPA that will render Qt apps within …

Why not? It's not practical for traditional uses of semiconductors, but it has a mechanism to control conductivity.

Keep in mind that there wasn't flexible infrastructure on demand in those days. User run servers was sort of a low cost market based demand scaler for IP owners. If the game is rea…

MS was knee deep in anti-trust negotiations with the DoJ around that time so I imagine acquisitions of that size and scope were off the table. Sega probably was small potatoes fina…