Re: CPU as a service has come!

2017-11-29 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 29. November 2017 10.01.25 Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > > in other words (sorry if I'm stressing on this), some computing devices > have become **virtual machines** running in a stealth host with a complete > OS running on it; you have not root access to the host, just to the > virtual

Re: CPU as a service has come!

2017-11-29 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Paul, * Paul Boddie [2017-11-28 23:06:24 +0100]: On Monday 27. November 2017 13.52.55 Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: please also consider that many respectable free software supporters are proposing solutions that are **useless tech workarounds**; e.g. looking at https://privacylab.yale.edu/ ,

Re: CPU as a service has come!

2017-11-28 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 27. November 2017 13.52.55 Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > > please also consider that many respectable free software supporters are > proposing solutions that are **useless tech workarounds**; e.g. looking at > https://privacylab.yale.edu/ , in the "What we do" box, I read: "Hosting > Tor",

Re: CPU as a service has come!

2017-11-27 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Timothy, first of all please smile thinking of the Great Irony of History that lead MINIX to be probably the most installed OS on the market (I don't have the figures but _strong_ suspicion) so now "we" have won the free software OS battle just to start the next one? :-) «We are the

MINIX on ring -3: CPU as a service has come!

2017-11-24 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
* Giovanni Biscuolo [2017-11-24 17:19:23 +0100]: glad my glamorous title obtained your attention :-D sorry I'm an idiot since I did not realized that my joke on "Black Friday" *almost surely* means that someone deleted my message as SPAM, in this case you can find it in the archives:

Re: Black Friday Last Minute: CPU as a service has come!

2017-11-24 Thread Timothy Pearson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sadly, I'm not sure that this massive leak matters much with e.g. local governments moving to Windows 10 that is already known to exfiltrate data. The entire premise of using "-as-a-Service" with minimal control and/or privacy

Black Friday Last Minute: CPU as a service has come!

2017-11-24 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi all, glad my glamorous title obtained your attention :-D I'm joking about Black Friday, I'm _not_ joking about "CPU as a service" since the issue I recently labeled in this ML as the "MINIX on ring -3 discovery" is not clear to at least one of my FSFE-pen-friends, I have be more specific