Mahdi (Jan 06 2018 at 18:04): Mahdi (Jan 06 2018 at 18:04):Have you guys heard about the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities? I hear the patches are significantly lowering the performance of some large applications
Jeff Sieu (Jan 07 2018 at 05:15):Just went to take a look at it, sounds pretty serious.
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 07:13):it's incredibly serious... unprecedented
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 07:13):history in the making
Mahdi (Jan 07 2018 at 16:45):Aside from all the ethical concerns regarding how organizations were informed, I think this should give cause for some celebration as well. It just seems that all the hardware companies were lax on security but after this "meltdown" I think people have started to boost up their security efforts. Hopefully advancements with Quantum will allow us to reinvent digital media and communications.
Mahdi (Jan 07 2018 at 16:46):If the despicable Javascript language dies out in the process of this transition it'll be a plus :)
Siddharth (Jan 07 2018 at 16:54):Yes, I heard about it
Siddharth (Jan 07 2018 at 16:54):It's pretty dangerous, all CPUs have this vulnerability
Siddharth (Jan 07 2018 at 16:55):The worst part is hackers got to know about it before intel and other chip makers released a patch
Mahdi (Jan 07 2018 at 16:55):Windows still hasn't released the patch
Mahdi (Jan 07 2018 at 16:56):Which is funny because they were informed
Mahdi (Jan 07 2018 at 16:56):There are already proof of concepts on the web
Siddharth (Jan 07 2018 at 17:04):
Sean (Jan 07 2018 at 18:32):It's pretty dangerous, all CPUs have this vulnerability
not all CPUs.
Mitesh (Jan 08 2018 at 01:11):the windows one look much like "wanna cry"
Mahdi (Jan 08 2018 at 01:27):Oh, yeah :)
Jeff Sieu (Jan 08 2018 at 01:28):the windows one look much like "wanna cry"
Isn't it actually just WannaCry
Mahdi (Jan 08 2018 at 01:29):Yeah, I don't know how that's related to the spectre & meltdown
Mahdi (Jan 08 2018 at 01:30):Oh I just got it dang
Mahdi (Jan 08 2018 at 01:30):Wow, that joke just skimmed right passed me
Jeff Sieu (Jan 08 2018 at 01:41):Haha
Siddharth (Jan 08 2018 at 07:24):Hahah it is wanna cry
Mitesh (Jan 08 2018 at 13:03):I think microsoft already published a patch for prevention of wannacry attack in their updates...and some other methods are also their to prevent it...as far as i remember..(I may have send this message to some other stream...by mistake)
Mahdi (Jan 08 2018 at 13:31):The joke is that Windows is always the least secure
Naseef (Jan 08 2018 at 13:34):Windows is vulnerable because it's popular.
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