Re: Making Computers Secure

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From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:31

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Andrew Swallow <am.sw...@btinternet.com> writes:
>On 01/02/2018 18:15, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
>>> On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 7:12:56 AM UTC-7, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why would you say that?   What possible knowlege of
>>>> the ARM solution do you have other than the very limited
>>>> description above?
>>>
>> 
>>> Since it isn't a security measure, it certainly doesn't stop "bad bits" from
>>> getting into the machine, whatever that may mean.
>> 
>> Well, I must admit I must be careful what I say
>> about products still in the pipeline, but suffice it to
>> say that all the processor vendors are _very_ interested
>> in security.
>> 
>Recently two chip level security breaches have been revealed, one of 
>which works on ARM chips.

It works on pretty much any modern out-of-order processor.   It's a new
thing.   That doesn't at all discount that the processor vendors are
_very_ interested in security, and do all they can to avoid these
issues and are certainly working fixes into next generation product.

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