4 Jan
2018
4 Jan
'18
4:01 p.m.
Chuck,
You do have to repower your machine. You never know what is still laying around in
memory. If the byte are anywhere in memory, there is always some way to find them.
Dwight
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 3:17:48 PM
To: Sophie Haskins via cctalk
Subject: Re: Spectre & Meltdown
On 01/04/2018 01:08 PM, Sophie Haskins via cctalk wrote:
It's kind of fascinating to run in to a
cross-platform vulnerability
like this! Is anyone else aware of similar vulnerabilities from
history that also affected multiple processors, but relied on their
implementation details?
Funny, I've been saying since the 1980s that it you have something
that's critical to your survival, keep it offline.
Until any of my PCs develop the ability to go to my storage cabinet and
fetch a DVD and load it into itself, I'm not sorried.
--Chuck