And now, there are cache attacks, too. Users should not be able to spy on each other on multiuser system, but they very probably can. In particular, other users can tell which parts of emacs you are executing, and when. They can probably not distinguish what characters you are typing, but they can probably learn when you are typing space, normal letter, or moving cursor. Ouch. And if they indeed can spy on individual characters... you can hardly blame emacs. With plain keyboard, cache attack on individual letters is probably not feasible. With t-9 like system on touchscreen... it probably is. Deal with it. But how?
Security getting hard/impossible on recent systems
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Certified danger
I suspected Linux Foundation went to the dark side when they started strange deals with Microsoft. But I'm pretty sure they went to dark side…
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Pretty big side-effect
Timing and side-channels are not normally considered side-effects, meaning compilers and cpus feel free to do whatever they want. And they do.…
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Complex cameras coming to PCs
It seems PCs are getting complex cameras. Which is bad news for PCs, because existing libv4l2 will not work there, but good news for OMAP3, as there…
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