📰 Paper reading club: genetic censorship circumvention, CPU backdoors

We come together to discuss advances in computer science, ground them down to applications, and see where to the wind is blowing. Read the papers at your own time and come discuss them with us. The talks will be given in English, discussion in En/Ru.

1. Automatic Censorship Evasion

Internet censorship becomes ever more advanced. Geneva is an approach for automatically discovering censorship evasion strategies. Let's learn how it works!

2. Backdoors in VIA x86 CPUs

We find internal control registers can enable the user to bypass security mechanisms, e.g., allowing ring 0 access at ring 3 in some common commercial VIA CPUs. At the seminar, we'll discuss how deep we need to dig into CPU to find a hidden backdoor/bug and which instruments we have for this. Paper, talk.

⏱ 18:00-21:00 Saturday, 13 January
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18
💰 free/donation
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