From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
Cc: "dpreed@deepplum.com" <dpreed@deepplum.com>,
cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] aarch64 exploit POC
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 10:19:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA93jw4gcYzf3gbMy5ydPiM7ovw6di_5hU05BemiWePY4jF64A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <510E05F0-82F2-4024-9508-1A253D1C23BB@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 7:57 AM, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On 8 Jan, 2018, at 5:49 pm, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can I get a discount for running stuff I don't care about on obsolete
>> hardware? The 5 dollar insecurity special?
>
> You can pass command-line arguments to the kernel to turn off the retpoline and kpti patches. Obviously, don't do that on a virtualised box, but you can do it on hardware you own and operate yourself with no untrusted code.
Not my point. it might be possible to buy time on hardware known to be
more secure, or (as I suggested)
get a discount for time on hardware known to insecure.
In other news:
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-01/msg00436.html
And I'm still waiting on a plan from linode.
https://blog.linode.com/
> - Jonathan Morton
>
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Dave Täht
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-07 19:03 dpreed
2018-01-08 15:49 ` Dave Taht
2018-01-08 15:57 ` Jonathan Morton
2018-01-09 18:19 ` Dave Taht [this message]
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2018-01-07 15:15 Dave Taht
2018-01-07 15:47 ` Outback Dingo
2018-01-07 16:10 ` Dave Taht
2018-01-07 16:21 ` Outback Dingo
2018-01-07 16:46 ` Dave Taht
2018-01-07 16:22 ` Jonathan Morton
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