If you have any cases where you think that Chrome is failing to comply with the terms of a free software license, then please file a bug at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list - we take license compliance very seriously. (I'm a Google engineer, though not working Chrome).

No, it is not vulnerable to this attack. The Brumley/Tuveri paper describes a timing leak in a specific algorithm that is only used for elliptic curve crypto over binary/GF(2m) fields. OpenSSH uses ECC over prime fields that use different algorithms that have no known timing leaks. A result against ECC using prime fields would be more difficult because the curve point components are integers and so can use well-tested modular arithmetic code.

It's a good thing we did that before banning ozone-depleting freons.

OpenSSH isn't vulnerable to this attack: https://twitter.com/#!/damienmiller/status/72814031941017600

Never mind the millions displaced by rising sea levels or changed rainfall patterns effecting their crops, we might lose a few bars of wifi reception!

You have cause and effect swapped. MS announced Windows for ARM because of the huge number of ARM products coming to market.

Apology accepted Captain Ozzie.

I have been reading Slashdot for a long time, but I have to say that this was easily the best comment I have ever seen here. Well done.

The changes announced today seem to be little more than a delaying tactic to remove the issue of mandatory Internet censorship from the agenda ahead of the election that is expected to be announced any day now. This issue has turned quite toxic for the government; the people who are for it are only weakly so, but the people who are against it are furious and are already organising campaigns against the government on various social media.

I don't think the government can be trusted not to bring it back in a essentially unmodified form after the next election. Vote accordingly.

Sony has managed to lose my trust too. I was a very happy customer of PS1-3, but the retroactive otheros thing has put me right off. I rarely used Linux once I installed it, but that they were willing to retrospectively nuke an advertised feature of their product clearly demonstrated to me that they do not put the customer first. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they do start crippling the PSN for non-paying customers.

The dumbest thing about the OtherOS removal is that it is probably not even going to help. Now that the hypervisor has been cracked enough to obtain memory dumps, it is far more likely that further hacking is going to rely on bugs that are found in the hypervisor software itself. These will probably be reachable by any application running on the system that takes user or network input. Think that every savegame loader is foolproof? How about that dinky web browser? Nuking OtherOS just pissed off loyal customers and bought them very little.

Actually, in some places (e.g. Australia), a significant amount of paper _is_ made by chopping down unique old-growth forests. Furthermore, the chlorine bleaching processes commonly used release a substantial amount of toxic effluent. So yeah, you should worry.

Actually there is: you cannot use the Playstation network or BD+ bluray features without the latest SW version.

Thanks for the pointer, I have been meaning to do just that. Here is mine:

You mean like Moody's or Standard and Poor's? Oh, wait...