we foolishly assumed that intel and other cpu manufacturers would not do stupid things, out of self interest, if nothing else. stupid things like put a whole processor hidden inside every cpu since pentium, running minix that "manages" what you thought was "your" cpu. stupid things like have (and try to hide) instructions that allow one to reprogram the microcode.
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 1:43 PM, <cinap_len...@felloff.net> wrote: > > all binaries on any repo (9p.io, 9front.org, bell-labs.com) are taken on > > faith to be safe; but it applies there too. > > does anyone read all the various rc scripts carefully? > > how's that comparable? the broken promise is that web > code will be contained in the browser tab so nobody needs > to trust that code. and we can just run it. that assumption > is proven over and over again to not be true due to bugs > in the interpreter and bugs in the massive libraries exposed > to it and now theres a case where its broken even if there is > no obvious flaw in the interpreter. > > nobody promised, or tried to do that with a plan9 process. > > code running in plan9 can do whatever you can do. and > easily crash the whole system. so you obviouly need to > be cautous about what you run. > > and yes, you should read the code. > > -- > cinap > >
