5 Jan
2018
5 Jan
'18
3 p.m.
On Jan 5, 2018, at 2:28 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm 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?
The flaws were only discovered recently, so there hasn’t been enough time for exploits to become widespread. You can bet now that the track vectors are well known, they will be exploited more often.
Here’s an excellent explanation of the problem, and how the exploits work:
https://twitter.com/gsuberland/status/948907452786933762
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