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Flaws in AMD CPUs.
by jim bell 30 Mar '18

30 Mar '18

Security researchers find flaws in AMD chips but raise eyebrows with rushed disclosure Business Security researchers find flaws in AMD chips but raise eyebrows with rushed disclosure Devin Coldewey,TechCrunch 19 hours ago A newly discovered set of vulnerabilities in AMD chips is making waves not because of the scale of the flaws, but rather the rushed, market-ready way in which they were disclosed by the researchers. When was the last time a bug had its own professionally shot video and PR rep, yet the company affected was only alerted 24 hours ahead of time? The flaws may be real, but the precedent set here is an unsavory one. The flaws in question were discovered by CTS Labs, a cybersecurity research outfit in Israel, and given a set of catchy names: Ryzenfall, Masterkey, Fallout, and Chimera, with associated logos, a dedicated website, and a whitepaper describing them. So far, so normal: major bugs like Heartbleed and of course Meltdown and Spectre got names and logos too. The difference is that in those cases the affected parties, such as Intel, the OpenSSL team, and AMD were quietly alerted well ahead of time. This is the concept of "responsible disclosure," and gives developers first crack at fixing an issue before it becomes public. There's legitimate debate over just how much control big companies should exert over the publicity of their own shortcomings, but generally speaking in the interest of protecting users the convention tends to be adhered to. In this case, however, the CTS Labs team sprang their flaws on AMD fully formed and with little warning. The flaws discovered by the team are real, though they require administrative privileges to execute a cascade of actions, meaning taking advantage of them requires considerable access to the target system. The research describes some as backdoors deliberately included in the chips by Taiwanese company ASmedia, which partners with many manufacturers to produce components. The access requirement makes these much more limited than the likes of Meltdown and Spectre, which exploited problems at the memory handling and architecture level. They're certainly serious, but the manner in which they have been publicized has aroused suspicion around the web. Why the extremely non-technical video shot on green screen with stock backgrounds composited in? Why the scare tactics of calling out AMD's use in the military? Why don't the bugs have CVE numbers, the standard tracking method for nearly all serious issues? Why was AMD given so little time to respond? Why not, if as the FAQ suggests, some fixes could be created in a matter of months, at least delay the publication until they were available? And what's with the disclosure that CTS "may have, either directly or indirectly, an economic interest in the performance" of AMD? That's not a common disclosure in situations like this. (I've contacted the PR representative listed for the flaws (!) for answers to some of these questions.) It's hard to shake the idea that there's some kind of grudge against AMD at play. That doesn't make the flaws any less serious, but it does leave a bad taste in the mouth. AMD issued a statement saying that "We are investigating this report, which we just received, to understand the methodology and merit of the findings." Hard to do much else in a day. As always with these big bugs, the true extent of their reach, how serious they really are, whether users or businesses will be affected, and what they can do to prevent it are all information yet to come as experts pore over and verify the data. * This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. ×

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the origins of Politically Correct euphemisms - and on using the word "Jew"
by Zenaan Harkness 30 Mar '18

30 Mar '18

Well, well, well. So the Jews invented PC-speech - political correct speech, or to use their Rabbinical tradition, the building of fences around fences around prohibitions, to make damn sure that no one breaks the original statute (Rabbinical prohibition) That is, they gotta plug the holes in that fence, or eventually the next inner fence might have someone climbing over it or breaking through it (unintentionally of course, since the "chosen ones" are so holy and pure <caugh caugh>) and ultimately then break the original Jewish, Toranic, or Rabbinical prohibition statute - because Jewish law is the only thing in the world with any value, of course <ahem!>. ("Chosen ones?" - don't worry, their contract is now broken and the world is about to shift.) For example: - pronouncing the original name of God - YHWH or Yahweh - only permitted by the most high Rabbi in the rebuilt temple - which hasn't happened for a couple thousand years, so The Name (of God) is used instead ever since, and since The Name became such a connotation of the holy one, many euphemisms, or fences, and fences around fences (euphemisms to refer to previous euphemisms) have been created over the millenia to refer to The Name Why? Because even you dare to utter "The Name" in a reference to God, you might be tempted to actually speak "Yahweh" and thus, by you lowly evil sin, defile the name of God - I guess they can't say that you'd defile God, since God/YHWH is of course omnipotent and perfect and therefore can never be defiled, but logic never seemed to be the strongest attribute of the power-wielding "elite" in society. This game is of course an endless and unstoppable cycle for Jews - putting themselves lower and lower into the dirt and away from Godliness (only such original sinners could be so lowly as to not even be permitted to refer to some euphemism which referred to some euphemism (ad infinitum) which eventually lead back to a reference to the name of God). Although one should probably presume that -some- Jews do this ridiculous linguistic self deprecation dance in "true piousness", I dare say there are some fundamentally egotistical "I'm so holy I don't even use the euphemism of the euphemism of the ... of the reference to The Name (of God)" twats - and effectively indulge their human idiocy (sins) without realizing it and thereby live the presumption of incredibly low and evil self ungodliness and thereby ultimately be an incompetent who excuses evil and proclaims the moral relativism of every possible action. Hell, I should know - I'm so humble even the Dalai Llama attends an hour of my personal humility class when he's feeling a little egotistical. Anyway, so Jesus came along, threw the globalists, sorry, I mean European style socialists - ok, I mean Jewish money changer bankers - out of the temple, dispensed with the 613 (or 620) Jewish Rabbinical laws and (re)instituted the Golden Rule (do unto others as you would have them do unto you, or Love thy Neighbour, as Levicitus would lead us). BUT, that's a problem for Jews, since Jesus threw out the statute (Rabbinical) law - "go first within, for therein is the kingdom of heaven". Or in modern terms, find your own authority within yourself already. Is there any wonder this rebel was strung up on a cross and blead to death? He rocked the establishment and bypassed the hierarchy, washed a woman's feet and preached (did anything) on the sabbath, so "shut it down" already! Create your world folks, ----- Forwarded message from Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> ----- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 12:19:36 +1100 Subject: using the J word Hi guys, this is an article by a Jewish author, who encourages us to avoid using euphemisms for "Jew", since using euphemisms in this case demonstrates fear of using the word "Jew". https://russia-insider.com/en/lets-call-jews-jews-and-not-use-silly-euphemi… Let's Call Jews 'Jews', and Not Use Silly Euphemisms Like 'Globalist' ----- End forwarded message -----

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Cryptocurrency: Wall St and ICO Fail, USB Lottery Sticks Win, Dick Eating, Meetups
by grarpamp 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16707421 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-banks-fintech-blockchain/wall-street-ret… https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/cryptocurrency/81-percent-of-recent-i… https://www.starterstory.com/cblocks https://fnordprefect.de/ https://twitter.com/BCHmeetups

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Climate, Renewable Power, Cell Phone Cancer
by grarpamp 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/03/24/2241225/world-cities-go-dark-for-e… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/… http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3706604 https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/18/03/22/2333203/worlds-largest-animal-st… https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/02/03/0150237/nih-study-links-cellph…

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Monetary Policy
by grarpamp 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/881xen/the_federal_reserve_silent… https://twitter.com/GoldTelegraph_/status/979370625192968193

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OpenBazaar and IPFS Offline Stores
by grarpamp 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16702684 https://news.bitcoin.com/openbazaar-2-0-beta-launches-with-tor-offline-stor… https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenBazaar/ https://openbazaar.org/ https://github.com/OpenBazaar

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Craigslist Pussies Out To Wannabe Censors and Regulators
by grarpamp 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-new-law-that-killed-craigslists-personals… https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/farewell-to-craigslists-personals-sect… https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/craigslist-personals-some-subre… https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Craigslist-ends-personal-ads-after-… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16654698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16664753 https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/86ndkm/craigslist_ends_personal_ads_… https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/86vdfp/the_new_law_that_killed… https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/03/23/205203/craigslist-personals-some-s… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-congress-censored-internet https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419494-Doj-Sesta.html https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865 https://www.craigslist.org/about/FOSTA vs https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/tim-cook-says-apples-customers-… https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/ Why can't these people make some sort of stand instead of falling to their knees... Stand up people. Your freedom to orient your lives the way you want depends on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b70TUbdfs

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Cryptocurrency: Fueling Independent Media
by grarpamp 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_LAoSh75KY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwJEYF0Eth4 https://youtube.com/BenSwann https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLdZo0Mkh_z2IQZSmD8Iy0Q

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Larken Rose Talks Political Activism with Not Governor Patrick Smith
by grarpamp 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHelULh4S-g

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GRARPAMP, YOU LAZY NIGGER !
by Don't be a nigger ! 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

>lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2018-March/041874.html >lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2018-March/041875.html >posting unbroken links >no summary grarpamp, you are lazier than a mexican nigger from a wealthy la-based jewish family getting stoned in your pjs at a childhood sleepover after eating a big bowl of non-fat gluten-free soy ice cream. >>links >rtl-entropy Fingerprinting. >a-48khz-digital-music-player-for For what ? >cyberattack-atlanta-ransomware Bullshit. Niggers can't into malware. >cow-astrology Wut. >sea-change-science/whats-in-a-number/attractive-ice-sheets Q: What do African climatologists research ? A: Ice Sheeeits ! Lel. "Climate Change" is the natural state of the "planet". The antarctic landmass changes by ~60% every year. "Planet" temperature oscillations increase as overall temperatures decrease. Check the core samples. >monero-privacy There is none. >its-not-just-spectre-researchers-reveal-more-branch-prediction-attacks Wut. >microsoft-to-ban-offensive-language-from-skype-xbox-office-and-other-services They killed Tay for going full 1488 in a day, what do you expect. >macos-high-sierra-logs-encryption-passwords-in-plaintext-for-apfs-external-drives Computers record processes, and water is wet. >state-department-seemingly-buys-15000-iphone-cracking-tech-graykey Commies want your gibs, so they don't have to create anything of their own. >hacker-search-engine-shodan-password-etcd-server-exposed Wuuuuut. A misconfigured server. Oh no ! >gibs me dats click shekels Not following your links. Post summary and insights or gtfo.

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