This is kind of neat. A fellow named Colin Percival appears to have discovered a security flaw in Intel's Hyper-Threading technology. "This flaw permits local information disclosure, including allowing an unprivileged user to steal an RSA private key being used on the same machine."
What's neat is that he has Google Adsense on his page. We benefit from his research, and he'll make a little money, in proportion to the interest in his results.
Posted by cradle at May 13, 2005 12:42 PMEven better, most of the ads are related to the very processors he is warning about. When I checked, the top ad was from Intel itself. So Intel is paying him to discuss the security flaws in their product.
Ad relevance detection is a funny thing. My own Geocities home page ends up being a great place to shop for a tenor sax, all because I mentioned that the guy who took my picture was a tenor sax player.
Posted by: Bob S at May 14, 2005 02:04 PM