![]() …but there were 26 remote code execution bugs in total, and 17 elevation-of-privilege bugs. Technically, that’s not part of Patch Tuesday… Well, no zero-days this month if you ignore that Edge remote code execution hole that we talked about last week.ĭUCK. Patch Tuesday fixes 4 critical RCE bugs, and a bunch of Office holesĭUCK. ![]() No zero-days, but still plenty of fixes, Paul: Not too long ago… Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Well, some interesting history, but let’s bring it up to the modern day. Apparently, MIT’s original plan was to charge a royalty of US$0.02 per bit on the idea.Ĭan you imagine how expensive that would make, say, a 64 gigabyte iPhone memory? Outstanding, yes… that’s really cool.ĭUCK. If you had a power failure, you could basically restart the computer and carry on where you left off.ĭOUG. …you can remagnetise it, but when you turn off the power, it stays magnetised. They were magnetised, either clockwise or anticlockwise, to mean zero or one.Īnd it had the funky feature, Douglas, that because ferrite essentially forms a permanent magnet… Tiny little ferrite magnetic cores, like you’d get at the centre of a transformer… like super-miniature washers. It’s a fantastically simple idea once you know how it works. This invention made computers more reliable and faster.Ĭore memory remained the popular choice for computer storage until the development of semiconductors in the 1970s.ĭUCK. Jay Forrester wrote down a proposal for “core memory” in his notebook, and would later install magnetic core memory on MIT’s Whirlwind computer. It is a kind of famous engineering school as well, isn’t it? Hey, it’s a beautiful campus I’ve been there many times.ĭUCK. ![]() Don’t say that like you’re from Boston and you’re all smug about it, Doug? ĭOUG. This week, on 15 June, way back in 1949, Jay Forrester, who was a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, wrote down…ĭUCK. Doug, I shouldn’t say this… but because I know what’s coming in This Week in Tech History, because you gave me a preview, I’m very excited!ĭOUG. Patch Tuesday, cybercrime comeuppance, and fun with passwords.Īll that, and more, on the Naked Security podcast.ĭUCK.
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