Re: [NF] Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaw Information

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, at 7:46 PM, Ken Dibble wrote: > Virtually everything we do here involves HIPAA-sensitive information, > but we have very robust perimeter defenses. I'm much more concerned > about a potential 30%+ performance loss in systems that are > constantly used by nearly a hundred people every day. > > >The exploit allows VMs to go into the memory space of other VMs. > >Very bad. Unless you don't have any sensitive info that needs to > >stay that way. > > > >-- > > > >rk > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ken Dibble > >Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 1:35 PM > >To: profoxtech@leafe.com > >Subject: Re: [NF] Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaw Information > > > >I just can't wait to see what it's going to do to my highly > >virtualized network--if I ever decide to let it through. Probably a > >smaller version of what it's already started to do to some commercial > >cloud systems. > > > >Windows Automatic Updates: Just Say No. (TM) > > > > >Also, kudos to Microsoft for shipping their patches a week early, and > > >spontaneously rebooting idle Windows workstations while people were > > >freaking out over the new exploits. Good job! > > > > > >On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Ken Dibble krdibble@stny.rr.com wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > Ask Woody has a very thorough report on this, with links to more > > > > information. > > > > > > > > We all need to be fully informed about this; it is going to affect > > > > everybody. > > > > > > > > https://www.askwoody.com/ > > > > > > > > Ken Dibble > > > > www.stic-cil.org > > > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server]