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From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Ken Thompson!
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 17:54:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W7pnAVRyVt9+wSLXWzR+2ZviZk26vqedEUDUjROJ0rEgQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1802060941020.50080@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Andy Kosela wrote:
>
> I am well aware of that, but ironically Intel did not even informed Andrew
>> about it... No one in the MINIX community was aware of that.
>>
>
> And AndrewT was reportedly pissed off when he found that the ME could
> actually snoop on (and respond to) network traffic etc without the OS even
> being aware of it; apparently the ME hooks into the NIC...


Speaking of things like that...This just landed in my inbox:

http://www.mymtaalerts.com/m?78F2F

The metrocard vending machines in the NYC subway are little PCs. I could
swear I've seen either an OS/2, Windows, or Linux startup sequence on one
or more of them before (maybe all three).
Anyway, what do you want to bet that the MTA is making people go around
with media and manually install updates for Spectre/Meltdown across the
transit system?

        - Dan C.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-05 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-03 20:57 Dave Horsfall
2018-02-03 21:12 ` Donald ODona
2018-02-03 21:59   ` Andy Kosela
2018-02-04  0:52     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-04  1:07       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
     [not found]         ` <CAM4FNSvnR+ZkgMyJ-0+p7LKKAYzts-7268RgApteLoT9q=TtYA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <CAM4FNSu-eQkt=AeUJ=2uvEwN=BQe7qdWn6ZCQmfFjb9at6uf_w@mail.gmail.com>
2018-02-04  1:29             ` Daniel Camolês
2018-02-04  1:35               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-02-04  1:14       ` Warner Losh
2018-02-04 13:59         ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-05 13:13     ` Tony Finch
2018-02-05 15:45       ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-05 16:19         ` Clem Cole
2018-02-05 17:41           ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-05 21:58       ` Andy Kosela
2018-02-05 22:47         ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-05 22:52           ` Toby Thain
2018-02-05 22:54           ` Dan Cross [this message]
2018-02-06  4:58             ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-06  5:05               ` Gregg Levine
2018-02-03 21:35 ` Will Senn
2018-02-03 21:49   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-02-03 22:59     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-04  0:51       ` Steve Simon
     [not found]         ` <CAM4FNStCAj-iFfg_DxyhkZMQu3dTx_4SeSsimALb3e1ktav2KQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <CAM4FNSv41x28yGYcmVLhwjh9LUNfBPNq=dpgtv5jSNuRemsY8A@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <CAM4FNSvMXLciCPUqZqaWLz7i0OMGesSWcPvETM4+p2Gj0zMPZw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]               ` <CAM4FNSsNomfRc6LNzFLFeA8EvgAgL7suJ9Zy_1gbVFsU2tkDDw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                 ` <CAM4FNSu-Ktx5e0UmBkw+ceJzZaM5Y-gWi1DT05jS3eTAoV=tcA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                   ` <CAM4FNSvxCrOiS=Qg9ntGrDA6P-7MW4pqTis7GpzBcLtTmj5NaA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                     ` <CAM4FNSsYZx3h35s1509M4La50Gc_AyGtU4SWzg9iQMziuBUDNw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                       ` <CAM4FNSsYNpdohKZPUaYsyHxUvCTbJ59KgLObZcRcmdsKuRLr5Q@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                         ` <CAM4FNStyCWwPTYVoZ1pcEJqTn-60P-1PTZdv=+P5F38tpUiLqg@mail.gmail.com>
2018-02-04  1:51                           ` Daniel Camolês
2018-02-04 17:33                             ` Toby Thain
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-02-04 23:42 Doug McIlroy
2019-02-05  3:49 ` Larry McVoy
2019-02-04  1:09 [TUHS] Happy Birthday " Doug McIlroy
2019-02-03 20:23 [TUHS] Happy birthday, " Dave Horsfall
2019-02-03 21:39 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-02-03 22:07   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-02-03 22:33     ` Clem Cole
2019-02-04  2:03       ` Paul Winalski
2019-02-04  3:57       ` Jason Stevens
2019-02-04  6:25         ` Peter Jeremy
2019-02-04  7:59           ` Steve Nickolas
2019-02-04 15:04             ` Dave Horsfall
2019-02-04 15:39             ` Toby Thain
2019-02-04 17:08         ` Al Kossow
2019-02-03 22:39     ` Michael Kjörling
2019-02-03 22:55     ` Steve Nickolas
2019-02-03 23:37       ` Andy Kosela
2019-02-04  0:32     ` Larry McVoy
2019-02-04  1:00       ` Steve Nickolas
2019-02-04  9:43 ` Donald ODona
2018-02-03 21:46 Norman Wilson
2017-02-03 20:00 Dave Horsfall
2017-02-04 12:38 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-04 12:44   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-04 13:15     ` Michael Kjörling
2016-02-03 17:38 Dave Horsfall

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