I think it's more of a side effect of the principle of out of order execution, not everything is a conspiracy.
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Alan Bourke
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, at 9:28 AM, AndyHC wrote:
> On 05-Jan-2018 1:58 PM, Alan Bourke wrote:
> > These exploits are nasty but if they've been in Intel chips ever since they started implementing out-of-order execution in 1995 then surely if there was a serious real-world threat we would have seen it long ago?
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> Unless it's been very carefully done by state-level actors!
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