None of our Linux machines use the Internet
Here’s the offending code.
If (NSA) then [do nothing];
so my dual xeon from a decade ago will have some sort of update from HP? Yeah, I highly doubt it.
What about my 6/7 year old Dell?
Most likely I am not going to find updates for either perfectly functional machine.
Step One: Log out and turn the PC OFF
Step Two: Unplug the PC from its electrical outlet
Step Three: Carry the PC outside and place it on a stump or other level surface.
Step Four: Verify that the area behind the chosen level surface is free and clear of people, animals, houses, vehicles, etc.
Step Five: Discharge three to five rounds from a 12 gauge shotgun in to the cabinet of the PC.
NOTE:'00' Buck is preferred, but regardless of your choice of loads, be sure to spread your shots evenly across the face of the cabinet.
Step Six: Discard the remains of the PC in an environmentally responsible manner.
Had a laptop crash Jan. 1. Looks like a hard drive failure. Hmmmm.
Suddenly feeling better about building my latest pc with ryzen.
As far as Apple boxes are concerned, the problem was fixed in OS 10.13.2 High Sierra; iPhones need physical access to be compromised.
Ok guys before you all have kittens.
All Intel microprocessors can have their microcode patched thru BIOS update.
Lets all wait till all the info comes out.
The only one in the history of Intel which couldn’t be fixes was the FPU flaw and the problem was once the error showed up, it did NOT throw an exception error.
Thus you couldn’t detect it or fix it with a microcode patch.
Just keep your browsers up to date and all will be well. Otherwise this is much to do about nothing.
No doubt all the new circuit boards being made in the future will have an updated firmware so this isn’t an issue in the future
Thanks for the info. I’ll start shutting down and updating immediately, even though it’s a pain in the neck!
THanks. Just to make it clear, I am a bona fide techtard. I use Chrome and Firefox. I never updated Chrome or saw any notice about it, I will do a search and find out how. Windows 10 updates are breathing down my neck right now. I use the free Avast.
Is all the above sufficient, do you think?
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That's what they said about rowhammer and it was wrong. There was no viable exploit through Javascript and it was easy to preclude in a browser JS engine. The problem with all of these types of exploits is they require special instructions. Javascript doesn't allow arbitrary instruction execution.
The only threat from this flaw is if you run an exe. That's why the VM providers are rushing to patch, their customers can run any exe they want including a malicious exe that attacks the host or another guest VM. But on your own PC you must run a malicious exe with the special instructions. As long as you practice safe computing you won't do that.
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