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Some time ago I stumbled upon this Hacker News discussion on how disable Spectre mitigation.
(For what Meltdown and Spectre is, refer to this article on 2018)
It is sad to say but my Intel NUC centrino was slowed down a lot by these mitigation, and the same faith is shared by old Intel server. Disabling it on Linux and Windows has a very huge improvements.
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Meltdown and Spectre are two big vulnearbilities found in Intel and AMD chips out of there. The vulenarbility is so huge it affects up to 1995 chips.
On the raspberrypi, there is a very nice explanation of what Meltdown is.
First of all, the one who discovered this bug is a GENIUS, for sure.
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At Gioorgi.com we are not a true cloud fan, and reality is going on to collect proofs for us…
On June 20, 2011, Dropbox had a serious security bug. It was possible to login to an account with “a wrong password”. Like to say Dropbox account system was naked, because “a small number of users[…] could have logged into an account without the correct password”!
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At Gioorgi.com we evaluted a internet file system common gateway for connecting network resources. We compared two solutions: a webdav file system and an ssh-fs file system. The solution should be viable via MacOSX and Linux, but also Windows support will be a plus.
WebDAV
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T r u e C r y p t
Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux
Main Features:
Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
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Versign is experimenting a new Phone software to gain maximum security.
The software will be able to generate a unique to use to log in your accounts, in a similar way a RSA Key does.
What’s the Password? Only Your iPhone Knows - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com.
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