Archive 14. May 2005

OpenCOBOL - a COBOL compiler

OpenCOBOL is a Cobol compiler that compiles Cobol to C and then lets gcc loose on it. Yes, I confess, 10 years of my professional career were wasted on Cobol.

Key theft on Hyperthreading systems - cool. I mean, sure, shit, it's a security hole. But that's really cool. Using Hyperthreading and cache timing to steal data from the second pseudo-processor right from under its nose - you have to come up with something like that first.