Posted on Jan 4, 2018

Meltdown and Spectre: How chip hacks work

Sgt Wayne Wood

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Meltdown and Spectre: How chip hacks work

Posted from bbc.co.uk

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Posted 7 y ago

Responses: 2

TSgt David L.

Posted 7 y ago

Thanks for the post. At least they are making patches available to limit the vulnerability. Lets hope it works. Until the next problem anyway.

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SSG Tom Pike

Posted 7 y ago

People putting performance above security.

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Sgt Wayne Wood

7 y

Mmmm... a forgivable oversight...

Not easy to implement or exploit. The key would be poisoning the instruction stream... how to correctly sequence the context switches.

Kudos to the guys that were able to pull it off!

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Meltdown and Spectre: How chip hacks work

Meltdown and Spectre: How chip hacks work

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