[cfarm-users] OT: Spectre and Meltdown cpu bugs

[Stas Boukarev]

Well, don’t do that? You already have to trust the farm admins not to do
that.
I wouldn’t want a compiler farm to slow down because somebody is doing
online banking on it.

On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 at 21:07 Paul Hargrove <phhargrove at lbl.gov> wrote:

> We all login to the CFarm system using ssh keys.
> IF you use agent forwarding AND a key trusted elsewhere, you could be a
> target of ssh-agent hijacking.
>
> -Paul
>
> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 2:30 AM, Stas Boukarev via cfarm-users <
> cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
>
>> Do people really process sensitive data on the compiler farm?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 5:21 AM Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users <
>> cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> It looks like PoCs are starting to be released for the CPU bugs. Or
>>> there's a PoC in the wild for ARM processors. The farm may want to
>>> accelerate deployment of the fixes if it has not done so.
>>>
>>> Early reports:
>>> * https://amp.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7nl8r0/intel_bug_incoming/
>>> * https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
>>>
>>> Latest news:
>>> *
>>> https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/4/16848976/how-to-protect-windows-pc-meltdown-security-flaw
>>>
>>> Jeff
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> Paul H. Hargrove <PHHargrove at lbl.gov>
> Computer Languages & Systems Software (CLaSS) Group
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