Red Mosquito

I knew I should have went with AMD.

cutuphalfdead wrote:I knew I should have went with AMD.

Bi_3 wrote:This "Spectre" bug is bad. Like industry shaking bad.

Doesn't Spectre apply to all current chipsets?

simple schoolboy wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I knew I should have went with AMD.

Bi_3 wrote:This "Spectre" bug is bad. Like industry shaking bad.

Doesn't Spectre apply to all current chipsets?

Meltdown is just Intel. All Intel chipsets is my understanding and some AMD and like one or two ARM suffer from Spectre. But remember what you have in your PC is irrelevant. The cloud (AWS, Azure, Alibaba, etc.), your bank, and many public utility command and control systems are vulnerable.

"New zero-day vulnerability: In addition to rowhammer, it turns out lots of servers are vulnerable to regular hammers, too."

Sometimes I forget that computers don't run on magic and are really just a lot of little physical switches.

FBI chief calls unbreakable encryption 'urgent public safety issue'

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/i ... ssion=true

I think a much bigger public safety concern would be if the FBI could break into encrypted devices.

I saw that. Dude's got one of those faces, you know.

Bi_3 wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I knew I should have went with AMD.

Bi_3 wrote:This "Spectre" bug is bad. Like industry shaking bad.

Doesn't Spectre apply to all current chipsets?

Meltdown is just Intel. All Intel chipsets is my understanding and some AMD and like one or two ARM suffer from Spectre. But remember what you have in your PC is irrelevant. The cloud (AWS, Azure, Alibaba, etc.), your bank, and many public utility command and control systems are vulnerable.

So what do I need to be doing to keep my devices safe and free from trouble?

washing machine wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I knew I should have went with AMD.

Bi_3 wrote:This "Spectre" bug is bad. Like industry shaking bad.

Doesn't Spectre apply to all current chipsets?

Meltdown is just Intel. All Intel chipsets is my understanding and some AMD and like one or two ARM suffer from Spectre. But remember what you have in your PC is irrelevant. The cloud (AWS, Azure, Alibaba, etc.), your bank, and many public utility command and control systems are vulnerable.

So what do I need to be doing to keep my devices safe and free from trouble?

Pray

I just wanted to say that the comic on this page is possibly the worst one I've ever seen.

Good news for Bernie supporters:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/25/health/c ... index.html

Yes, that CNN.

oh they're not even trying now. Laziest clickbait ever.

We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/arti ... isy-ridley

I tried to start a conversation about that in another thread, it's going to be the single biggest challenge our judicial system has ever faced. I mean, you think cops planting evidence is bad now...

I wonder if something like that can be considered slander/defamation.

Jesus both of those Leias are horrifying. One of those is really from the actual movie?

lol