Programming, Open Hardware and BSD
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The rise of open-source computing
is a set of open-source designs for microchips that was initially developed a decade ago at the University of California, Berkeley. These days it is attracting attention from many big technology firms, including Google, Nvidia and Qualcomm (see article). In August IBM made its Power chip designs open-source. These moves are welcome, for two reasons.
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Binary Hardening in IoT products
Unfortunately, with few exceptions (notably Synology) we see there is very little coverage, and even Synology struggles to adopt basic hardening features like ASLR and stack guards.
A perfect score, where all binaries had all 5 basic safety features, would result in a chart that looks like a regular pentagon. Instead, in most vendors’ cases, they struggle to achieve polygon status at all.
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Milky Way v0.3 release
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LibreSSL as the default provider of SSL and TLS protocols
Xenocara as the default provider of display server for the X Window System -
sysupgrade(8) Added to OpenBSD 6.5
In a move bound to be greeted with great enthusiasm, the newly-released Patch 012 for OpenBSD 6.5 adds sysupgrade(8) to the system.
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