Meltdown at Browns Ferry

Meltdown

The security of computer systems fundamentally relies on memory isolation, e.g., kernel address ranges are marked as non-accessible and are protected from user access. In this paper, we present Meltdown. Meltdown exploits side effects of out-of-order execution on modern processors to read arbitrary kernel-memory locations including personal data and passwords. Out-of-order execution is an indis...

The Mrs. Browns of Modernism

Sanitation and Parasitism at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

One focus of historical archaeology at Harpers Ferry Na­ tional Historical Park, West Virginia, is tracing the devel­ opment of sanitation at the town through the 1800s and 1900s. Historical documentation indicates that there was a degree of resistance to the modernization of village sanita­ tion. This study attempts to verify this resistance through examination of privy soils for parasites ind...

Avoiding Another Meltdown

Challenge/January–February 2009 5 Challenge, vol. 52, no. 1, January/February 2009, pp. 5–26. © 2009 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved. ISSN 0577–5132 / 2009 $9.50 + 0.00. DOI: 10.2753/0577–5132520101 JAMES CROTTY is Professor Emeritus of economics and Sheridan Scholar at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. GERALD EPSTEIN is professor of economics and codirector of the Political Scien...

A ferry between cultures

the new field of research into the ethical, legal and social aspects of scientific and technological developments (ElSa) is rapidly becoming a professional field with grants, research programmes and university departments devoted to it. at first glance, ElSa seems to be a new development intended to address questions and challenges that arise from advances in the natural sciences. the professio...