Add protection for private keys at rest in RAM against speculation and memory sidechannel attacks like Spectre, Meltdown, Rowhammer and Rambleed. This change encrypts private keys when they are not in use with a symmetic key that is derived from a relatively large "prekey" consisting of random data (currently 16KB). Attackers must recover the entire prekey with high accuracy before they can attempt to decrypt the shielded private key, but the current generation of attacks have bit error rates that, when applied cumulatively to the entire prekey, make this unlikely.
to me "half-caste" has a horribly imperialistic/colonialistic connotation
I can see now how it could convey that. A friend explained to me that the use of the word "half" was in some way diminishing/demeaning to the described person. That was not the way I had looked on it, I saw it as a simple and unimportant statement of fact that the colour (the "caste") was "half and half", but I learned to accept that others might not see things the same.
And as a USian, "colored people" has a direct connotation with Jim Crow and segregation.
Well thanks for the pointer - I had never heard of Jim Crow, but I've googled, and now I'm considerably wiser about the stupidities of my fellow humans. Well sort of - it's not clear whether "Jim Crow" was an actual person, or a caricature rhyming word for "negro". Doesn't matter really - the point is that I see how "coloured people" was used in an oppressive way on segregation paraphernalia.
Jesus, what a mess of racial prejudice you folks have gone through in the US. In terms of the US history of prejudice I'd seen "Mississippi Burning" and that was about all; the epicentre of apartheid while I was growing up had been white South Africa, which we saw off when Nelson Mandela was released. Racial prejudice / racism always seems to me so old-fashioned and deluded that I don't even consider it
I used that term ["mulatto"] with a friend of mine who is mixed-race. He told me it was offensive
I've been told (in a friendly way) that in the UK I shouldn't call people "mixed race" any more cos that's offensive - instead I should use "people of colour" (but woe betide me if I say "coloured people", cos that's offensive too). There was a time when I used "half-caste", but apparently that's really really really wrong, and it was after then that I started using mixed-race.
I'm a honky
This whole situation has become ridiculous.
“The work is currently underway to develop an aircraft equipped with jamming systems that will replace Il-22PP Porubshchik [electronic warfare aircraft], which are currently being delivered to the Russian Aerospace Forces,” an unnamed Russian defense industry source told Sputnik News. “This machine will receive a fundamentally new on-board equipment, which will allow to conduct electronic suppression of any targets—ground, air, sea—and disable enemy satellites that provide navigation and radio communication on the ground.”
Disabling the electronics on satellites? This would seem to be a different challenge, and how Russia plans to tackle it is unclear. For example, what does it mean to “turn off” a military satellite? Convince the satellite to shut down its systems, perhaps by spoofing a command signal from ground control? Or does it mean hitting the satellite with some kind of powerful beam that fries its electronics or disrupt its systems? And how powerful a system could be mounted on what is essentially a medium-sized airliner?
Because I'm not a complete dumbass I always have understood that due to the terrible threat it constitutes to my privacy and ultimately to my freedom Facebook is to be trusted as far as I can spit - so I don't overshare, never post anything personal on it, and use it only for (a) ranting about ignorant politicians and other morons, and (b) learning. There are innumerable special interest FB groups you can join, in some of which I have learned very valuable things (Food Preservation Techniques, Fungi Identification, all kinds of Philosophy, all kinds of Politics
In the Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster group I learned that it's infested by fools who actually assert that Pastafarianism is a valid religion, rather than the religion-trashing parody of contempt for believers in fairy stories that I had thought it was
And then there is the amusing sport that is to be had by lying to Facebook at every opportunity
So I heartily urge you all to get accounts if you don't already, and then join in the community effort to turn Zuck's database to cottage cheese. Lets face it - when the shit comes down and the 10-ton trucks start hauling subversives off to the internment camps it'll be a red flag to the TLAs to not have an FB profile, so you might as well set one up that's full of plausible nonsense.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
