846 karma · joined March 21, 2020
Overall a great experience, can recommend !
Had they "captured" a larger marketshare in the EU while they were ahead, situation might have been different today, but in my opinion it never happened.
"However, Confidential Computing is not secure enough to protect data integrity and confidentiality against a hostile administrator performing targeted, active attacks. Under such a threat model, users must avoid running on shared infrastructure operated by providers they cannot trust, and are rather encouraged to leverage Confidential Computing to increase their security posture on dedicated hardware instead."
The threat model for these technologies can also sometimes be sketchy (lack of side channel protection for Intel SGX, lack of integrity verification for AMD SEV, for example)
For example, a direct link to his keynote slides from ESA 3S conference last year (PDF): https://indico.esa.int/event/528/attachments/5988/10212/Keyn...
https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/uber-...
It comes with some minor usability issues with captive Wifi portals sometimes, but the trade-off of not having ads in app or while browsing is way worth it IMHO.
AI is in he title, but the content is not entirely revolving around it.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/arm...
"Looking at the various firmware images we were able to obtain, we assess that the modifications may have been performed with an automated patcher. If so, it would follow that the attackers had prior access to the victim’s computer in order to extract, modify and overwrite the motherboard’s firmware. This could be achieved through a precursor malware implant already deployed on the computer or physical access"
While Secure Boot + BitLocker with TPM and PIN would have prevented an Evil Maid attack (at least would have triggered a PCR change and a Windows Recovery prompt), a preliminary infection (I understand by it a supply chain attack before it reaches the user for the first time, but maybe I'm extrapolating a bit what the report is saying) would have stayed undetected in most scenarios (depending on how Intel Boot Guard is configured).
Regarding the Linux part, ANSSI did a pretty great job with their CLIP OS implementation: https://docs.clip-os.org/clipos/boot_integrity.html, but it's really "for the masses" :(
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000126098/what-is-d...
Will stick to DoT for the moment :)
EDIT : ok so only 'dns.google' or 'cloudflare-dns.com' are supported right now, other domains are still using DoT. Pretty useless feature then :(