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Larry thinks Oracle's M7 chip is hacker-proof – but you may have a 1-in-16 chance of cracking it

  • 28 October 2015
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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This is well explained. And they these new processors sound they are great until you read this.
 

We take a look at color-based Sparc defenses

 
                            


 
28 Oct 2015 at 08:02, Chris Williams
 
Analysis Oracle insists it really is going to sell computers powered by Sparc M7 processors – the same chips it started talking about in 2014.
 
On Monday, Big Red breathlessly unveiled hardware powered by the beefy microprocessor, and on Tuesday, its supremo Larry Ellison lauded the 64-bit CPU's security defenses.
 
One of these defenses certainly caught our eye: the ability to tag regions of memory so software hijacked by hackers cannot read or write data it isn't supposed to. This should, we're told, render vulnerabilities such as Heartbleed useless to attackers – more on that in a moment.
 
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Very interesting article...........going to keep a close eye on this one for sure.

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