freebsd security - Mar 2019 - Spoiler Alert

On 05.03.2019 22:55, Shawn Webb wrote:
>> This came over my phone's news feed. Another example that Colin
Percival was right when he wrote his paper on exploiting cache for fun and
profit many years ago.
> 
> Weird machines are weird.
 Not-weird machines are dead-slow :-(

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// Lev Serebryakov

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In message <2c3f9748-a17f-3778-9eaa-99087f33d0e3 at FreeBSD.org>, Lev 
Serebryakov
writes:
> On 05.03.2019 22:55, Shawn Webb wrote:
>
> >> This came over my phone's news feed. Another example that
Colin Perciv> al was right when he wrote his paper on exploiting cache for
fun and prof> it many years ago.
> >=20
> > Weird machines are weird.
>  Not-weird machines are dead-slow :-(
Picking a random email in this thread to reply.

The problem is that there are so many of these Spectre class of 
exploits that we collectively roll our eyes. Yet another one is not 
news any more.


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