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Security alert - "Meltdown" and "Spectre"
RE: Security alert - "Meltdown" and "Spectre"
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Latestbug news: apparently some cheap Android phones, as well as the Raspberry Pi are completely unaffected because they're so underpowered. That is, they don't do any speculative execution.

Some workloads have increased quite a bit: Redis gets a 5% to 30% slowdown, ElasticSearch, etc.  So bad news on the caching layer, which might be the bottleneck for a lot of apps.  Cloud computing just got more expensive.

I still feel like there aren't any reasonable exploits for this publicly available.  That said, if you're the kind of person who might be targeted by a nation state, I wouldn't be surprised certain intelligence services have weaponized this exploit.  It's 17 years old now.  It's probably worthwhile to change passwords anyway.

But I'll wait until there's a fix available for El Capitan.  Apple pushed a patch for the 3 newest OS versions, and then figured out that it didn't actually fix the issue on anything except the newest version.  Oops.  Not that I'm going to upgrade to High Sierra if freaking htop regularly crashes the kernel.

It's just one of these days I wonder why I ever decided to take up computers for a living.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto
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RE: Security alert - "Meltdown" and "Spectre" - by Labster - 01-06-2018, 01:36 AM

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