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Re: Questions about Spectre / Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities

January 4, 2018
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From: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>

On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:43:38 -0500, David W. Hodgins
<dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

>>> It provides read access to tiny amounts of data at a time. Given the
>>> multi-processor/multi-threading of processors, the volume of data the
>>> exploit would have to sift through to find any thing of use, is massive.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-inte...
ed-his-own-computer-and-found-worst-chip-flaw-idUSKBN1ET1ZR

Given this description of seeing full urls, etc, I take it back. It is
a critical problem, that will have be be mitigated asap.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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