devhwrng

(January 2018)

FreeBSD has always been so far behind in basic security migitations. It is 2020, and FreeBSD still doesn't have ASLR.

This is your fourth (fifth? sixth?) Show HN for this product. I doubt opinions have changed.

The pricing level for the ARM instances should be interesting. If Amazon prices them well below their Intel and AMD instance types, they could really drive adoption and lock-in.

Great paper! Given the write-ups of old and broken crypto, perhaps a better title would be History of Cryptography?

Maybe Tim Cook will show some "courage" now.

[Edit] Sorry for the snark. In a market economy, the only way companies like Apple might act in the same way that compassionate human beings would, is if it were in the interests of their bottom line. Perhaps articles like this will hit critical mass, and Apple will put out a statement, carefully composed to ensure that China doesn't lose face. Perhaps they'll do something tangible.

Come back 12 months later and nothing will have changed.

I do this personally and it's great. I've even set this up for extended family. But any real solutions to the problem will not be technological, they will have to be legislative...

Given that no reasonable legislation will likely pass against adtech, I'll be stuck buying rpis as gifts again for the next several years.