Jon Masters

You can find Jon on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jonmasters.

Some of the highlights of the show include:

• "Negative Result: Reading Kernel Memory From User Mode" (blog post from July 2017): https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-memory-from-user-mode/ • Spectre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability) • Meltdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability) • Speculative execution: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261792-what-is-speculative-execution • ICL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limited • Hacker News front page, January 1st, 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-01-01Boogie Nights • , the death of Little Bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFX-qfYbHKg • BBC Micro 6502: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro • BBC Master: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_MasterStorage Wars • : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_Wars • PA-8000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-8000 • SPARCbook 3000ST: https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/04/01/sparcbook-3000st-the-coolest-90s-laptop-sparc-vintagecomputing-retrocomputing-eckmeister/ • Itanium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium • McKinley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Itanium_microprocessors#McKinley_(180_nm) • Leon Czolgosz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Czolgosz • Humartia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia • Transmeta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta • Transmeta Crusoe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe • Richard (Dick) Sites: https://sites.google.com/site/dicksites/ • Dick Sites, "It's the Memory, Stupid!": http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/architects_look_to_future.pdf • John Crawford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crawford_(engineer) • John Hennessy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy • Kernel page-table isolation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_page-table_isolation • Hot Chips 30 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZo • Panel at Hot Chips 30 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZo#t=1h17m • The Omega Directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Directive • L1TF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshadow_(security_vulnerability) • iDRACula: https://www.servethehome.com/idracula-vulnerability-impacts-millions-of-legacy-dell-emc-servers/ • MDS, including Zombieload and RIDL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microarchitectural_Data_Sampling • Heartbleed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed • Lazy FPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_FP_state_restore • Pentium FDIV bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug • Pentium F00F bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug • Hyper-threading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading • Acorn Archimedes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes • Acorn RISC machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture • RISC-V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V • ARM Thumb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Thumb • ARMv8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARMv8-A • Chris Celio et al., "Avoiding ISA Bloat with Macro-Op Fusion for RISC-V": https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318 • Chris Celio, "ISA Shootout": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii_pEXKKYUg • BeagleBoard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard • ARM Ares: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures/neoverse_n1 • SeaMicro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMicro • Calxeda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calxeda • AppliedMicro X-Gene: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apm/x-gene • UEFI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface • Broadcom Vulcan: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/cavium/microarchitectures/vulcanSavaged by Systemd: An Erotic Unix Encounter • by Michael Warren Lucas: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36190710-savaged-by-systemd • Coreboot kexec'ing Linux: https://twitter.com/hugelgupf/status/1158466881373630464 • IOMMU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_memory_management_unit • Slackware: https://en.wikipedi...