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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday May 23 2018, @06:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the your-computer-is-not-a-fast-PDP-11 dept.

Very interesting article at the IEEE ACM by David Chisnall.

In the wake of the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, it's worth spending some time looking at root causes. Both of these vulnerabilities involved processors speculatively executing instructions past some kind of access check and allowing the attacker to observe the results via a side channel. The features that led to these vulnerabilities, along with several others, were added to let C programmers continue to believe they were programming in a low-level language, when this hasn't been the case for decades.


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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @03:45AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @03:45AM (#683401)

    Some of us have been anonymous (well, as much as possible) since USENET days, and we're not going to stop this side of the grave.

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday May 24 2018, @01:05PM

    by Wootery (2341) on Thursday May 24 2018, @01:05PM (#683527)

    You might have been doing it for decades, but that doesn't convince me that it makes any sense.