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I still remember the time when mnemonics were 2 or 3 characters. Good days.
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They should have mentioned that in the first line of the github readme, not burried deep down in the text.
Buried? Deep down? The fourth paragraph, clearly labeled "Affected Systems", a minute or two into the read.
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They should have mentioned that in the first line of the github readme, not burried deep down in the text.
Buried? Deep down? The fourth paragraph, clearly labeled "Affected Systems", a minute or two into the read.
This shows that large companies making closed-source CPUs cannot be trusted. No doubt they would add whatever the government asks them to add. What can be done to mitigate this? One option would be to buy a large FPGA and flash it with an open-source CPU. Another would be to emulate a CPU, working with encrypted data and commands, so that even if the backdoor in a host CPU tries to overwrite memory, it would only cra…
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Buried? Deep down? The fourth paragraph, clearly labeled "Affected Systems", a minute or two into the read.
We have shorter attention spans now.
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We have shorter attention spans now.
Multiple things can be true at the same time. While we do have shorter attention spans, some (lots of?) developers absolutely suck at writing articles
This shows that large companies making closed-source CPUs cannot be trusted. No doubt they would add whatever the government asks them to add. What can be done to mitigate this? One option would be to buy a large FPGA and flash it with an open-source CPU. Another would be to emulate a CPU, working with encrypted data and commands, so that even if the backdoor in a host CPU tries to overwrite memory, it would only cra…
Buy hardware used by government computers that are rivals to your country.
So if American, buy Chinese CPUs and install Chinese Linux or HarmoneyOS Assuming there is nothing you are doing of interest to them, as that will also have back doors
After Snowden, one can only imagine the worst and think everything has a backdoor.
But unless you are a high level terrorist or other person of interest, no state organization is going to target you at this level
P.s. you say no one can trust closed source, but a lot of open source is maintained by one or two people or a small group, just takes infiltration by one or two trusted contributors to push malicious code in and unless someone looks and finds that code amongst millions of lines of code, may never be discovered (more so as mainstream media won't publish any thing)