Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You To A New Home

Home directories have been a fundamental part on any Unixy system since day one. They’re such a basic element, we usually don’t give them much thought. And why would we? From a low level point of view, whatever location $HOME is pointing to, is a directory just like any other …read more

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One Year Later: Ensuring Windows is Protected from Meltdown+Spectre

2018: The year of speculative execution bugs
A year ago, in January 2018, three hardware vulnerabilities known as Meltdown, Spectre Variant 1, and Spectre Variant 2 were disclosed to the public.
Although disclosure was supposed to occur on January… Continue reading One Year Later: Ensuring Windows is Protected from Meltdown+Spectre