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Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors (ethz.ch)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The new class of vulnerabilities in Intel processors arises from speculative technologies that anticipate individual computing steps.

Openings enable gradual reading of entire privilege memory contents of shared processor (CPU).

All Intel processors from the last 6 years are affected, from PCs to servers in data centres.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

This sounds just like Spectre/heartbleed. Haven't we learned our lesson with speculative computation? I guess not...

Well you know what they say, if it was a bad idea 10 fucking years ago, then let's do it again!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

i mean just look at the performance hits with speculative execution off

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

With massive OOO pipelines, what's the alternative?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Intel has not learned, still making money on crap chips.