Certain types of ECC RAM can also be exploited with Rowhammer. 😲
Tag: Internet
In Support of Strong Encryption
IEEE supports the use of unfettered strong encryption to protect confidentiality and integrity of data and communications. We oppose efforts by governments to restrict the use of strong encryption and/or to mandate exceptional access mechanisms such as “backdoors” or “key escrow schemes” in order to facilitate government access to encrypted data. Governments have legitimate law enforcement and national security interests. IEEE believes that mandating the intentional creation of backdoors or escrow schemes – no matter how well intentioned – does not serve those interests well and will lead to the creation of vulnerabilities that would result in unforeseen effects as well as some predictable negative consequences.
— IEEE Position Statement
Rooting With/For Rowhammer
The Rowhammer class of exploits never stops to amaze.
Hey Visitor, why don’t you also enjoy our SPAM
It seems ad networks have reached a new low or as the author puts it:
This transaction breaks a core promise using the internet: just because I visit a website doesn’t mean I consent to getting spam from it.
Internet > Alkohol
Eine representative Umfrage besagt, dass Deutsche eher bereit sind auf Alkohol als auf das Internet zu verzichten. 😮
Google Smart Reply
“Smart Reply” … Google making your conversations more dynamic and fun by taking you out of the loop little by little.
Hello, Is That You?
It looks like Google has been recording your voice searches (German). There have been rumors all along and it was assumed this was going on. They have the actual voice recordings and their transcripts and also generate a “finger print” of your voice to be able to verify it.
If you extrapolate from that they can by now
- transcribe speech almost instantaneously,
- have (over time) enough data to recognize your voice among others and
- are also able to speak in your voice stitching together chopped-up samples of your speech.
*shudder*
White Space As Unused Advertising Space
has a few points on why it’s stupid to think of all white space as unused advertising space.
[Look,] here is an “inefficient” use of space that could instead be used to “inform” the public of “opportunities.”
It’s interesting to see how one of the most wasteful industries of our society claims to make things more efficient by wasting people’s time and cluttering up everything.
Thank Goodness it’s Not in the App
Phew … WhatsApp denied that the app records calls made through it … they had me worried for a second. 😌
JavaScript History as Seen From 2035
Gary Bernhardt presents a thought-provoking history of JavaScript as seen from 2035.
His arguments are that
- With asm.js JavaScript VMs ran code with 50% of native speed (even in 2013)
- Anything that can be compiled can be compiled into asm.js
- Asm.js has basically become the universal runtime
So by further moving the JavaScript VM into the kernel we save ourselves the overhead of hardware process isolation as the VM does this any way.
All this lead to interesting consequences
- Nobody uses binaries any more, everything is asm.js
- The windowing systems of old have been ported to the DOM
- Deployments are as simple as a push
- JavaScript (as a language) is effectively dead
- Overall developer happiness has increased
:’D