At 00:28 2018-01-05, 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?
No.
It is possible that the Black Hats do not know every weakness of systems.
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Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko