Collaborate Disseminate
I have noticed that both browsers Firefox and Chromium on linux do open the file /proc/self/mem for reading. No other program on my system reads this file, as far as I can tell.
/proc/self/mem is notorious for being vector for endless priv… Continue reading what are legitimate reason for a program to need access to /proc/self/mem [migrated]
user namespaces in Linux are presented as a security feature, which should increase security. But is this really true?
Is it possible that while user namespaces fix one kind of problem, they introduce another, unexpected, problem with pote… Continue reading user namespaces: do they increase security, or introduce new attack surface?
gpg has some preset default settings, which I assume were selected as a compromise between speed and security. I understand that these are good enough for most people.
But, in a situation where speed / performance was not an… Continue reading gpg: what defaults can be improved, when performance is not an issue?
How can I find out, if given CPU is affected by the Meltdown and Spectre bugs ?
My CPU is relatively older, and it is a SOC chip:
AMD GX-412TC SOC
I was not able to find, whether these chips also use speculative execution… Continue reading are small SOC chips also affected by Meltdown and Spectre?