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People said a couple of months back that this could be worse than flash player for Whack-A-Mole patching and i see that we are up to version 4 already.
its bonkers isn't it?
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
I'm not sure modern processors can even be saved. We have pure-JavaScript Rowhammer, we have multiple variants of Spectre affecting everything other than Itanium. It's nuts.
There was a News article a couple of days back about a memory side channel exploit of network chips called Throwhammer and Nethammer.
It seems anything with Ram needs to be re-designed
how convenient. Just when sales of CPUs are dwindling. Nothing like a continuing problem to nudge folk to upgrade. I will take a different line. I'll just pull it offline and get a cheapo compact Brix system or similar for web browsing.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/0...tre_fix_linux/
Linus Torvalds isn't happy with the way it's being dealt with.
Intel's future silicon may not be Spectre-proof after all
https://www.bit-tech.net/news/intels...f-after-all/1/
Things are looking worse.
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