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Alias your Specter Meltdown Checker
bfb:
--- Quote from: trinidad on January 22, 2018, 12:02:17 PM ---I don't use the LL version because I want the same updated version on all my systems so script changes I might personally make are universal across Ubu platforms. I assume the commands can be aliased the same way but the shell belongs in your home directory. Git clone is the easiest way to install this. I know Jerry automated this for LL users so if it already works for you leave it alone . However, I assume you would just have to add a /downloads/ after ~ in the cd part of the long command to be aliased as long as you have extracted to downloads to begin with.
TC
https://www.ostechnix.com/check-meltdown-spectre-vulnerabilities-patch-linux/
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I created a folder in my home directory called 'spectre-meltdown-checker' and copied the 'spectre-meltdown-checker.sh' file into it. Now it works perfectly.
Thanks for your work on this and your patience with me
trinidad:
@Moltke
Take solace in the fact that you are running an Ubuntu based distro with LL, and that the LL developer is very keen to do all he can to mitigate the mess for LL users. Also realize that this is an Enterprise (not home user) high risk vulnerabiity more than anything else, with unfortunate geo-political implications that will make it very expensive for large commerce oriented providers to avoid security breaches, and one likely to use multiple latent (currently inactive or not perceived as threatenting) software presences to acheive an advanced persistance threat and exploit. Just the fact that it is publicly known means that it is already probably tied to some latent APT. Computing is essentially a narrative, and as such this computing security issue will become the most recursively exploited in history, because the only real reslotution is transparency and trust, and to compound it all I fully expect the US government, some EU members, and certainly China to disallow certain of the APT mitigations as we are entering a difficult and very grey area of some nations' security efforts. Truthfully some political sabotage has already happened.
Your PC is not particularly at risk, just all the servers you connect to on the web who do track your information as much as they can in most cases. Pray for the web providers if you are religious. I do.
I will publish my views by the end of February. I will post the site when I do.
TC
Moltke:
--- Quote from: bfb on January 22, 2018, 11:05:48 AM ---I had downloaded it. I'm not quite that daft :D , but it is in my downloads folder in a folder of its won called
"Spectre-Meltdown-Checker-Automated-master"
should I cd to there before running the instructions above?
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You could just right-click inside that folder and select "open terminal here" then you can run
--- Code: ---sudo ./spectre-meltdown-checker.sh
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that's how I did it.
By the way @trinidad I read on this "speculative execution" but I still don't fully understand what this is about.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261792-what-is-speculative-execution
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261439-spectre-meltdown-new-critical-security-flaws-explored-explained
trinidad:
I don't use the LL version because I want the same updated version on all my systems so script changes I might personally make are universal across Ubu platforms. I assume the commands can be aliased the same way but the shell belongs in your home directory. Git clone is the easiest way to install this. I know Jerry automated this for LL users so if it already works for you leave it alone . However, I assume you would just have to add a /downloads/ after ~ in the cd part of the long command to be aliased as long as you have extracted to downloads to begin with.
TC
https://www.ostechnix.com/check-meltdown-spectre-vulnerabilities-patch-linux/
bfb:
I had downloaded it. I'm not quite that daft :D , but it is in my downloads folder in a folder of its won called
"Spectre-Meltdown-Checker-Automated-master"
should I cd to there before running the instructions above?
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