Re: [9fans] Spectre and Meltdown

[Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>]

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If Intel sells you lemons, make lemonade (ok, ok, at least a whiskey sour).
I myself welcome our new speculative overlords, and look forward to new
interesting predictions, and perhaps even a renewed interest in
single-address space systems, since that's what we've got.

On 10 January 2018 at 21:43, <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> wrote:

> > all binaries on any repo (9p.io, 9front.org, bell-labs.com) are taken on
> > faith to be safe; but it applies there too.
> > does anyone read all the various rc scripts carefully?
>
> how's that comparable? the broken promise is that web
> code will be contained in the browser tab so nobody needs
> to trust that code. and we can just run it. that assumption
> is proven over and over again to not be true due to bugs
> in the interpreter and bugs in the massive libraries exposed
> to it and now theres a case where its broken even if there is
> no obvious flaw in the interpreter.
>
> nobody promised, or tried to do that with a plan9 process.
>
> code running in plan9 can do whatever you can do. and
> easily crash the whole system. so you obviouly need to
> be cautous about what you run.
>
> and yes, you should read the code.
>
> --
> cinap
>
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