On 01/05/2018 07:35 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:32:19 -0500, you wrote:
According to several articles I read today:
Meltdown (1 exploit)is Intel-specific
Spectre (2 different exploits) affects just about every processor on
the planet.
This is correct, and the other key difference is that so far there is
only a solution to Meltdown.
The below linked page has this to say about Spectre:
"As it is not easy to fix, it will haunt us for quite some time"
Fedora has linked to this page for more info on the two:
https://spectreattack.com/
I haven't checked out that link yet, but from what I read, spectre is
also much harder to exploit, too, which mitigates the risk of spectre to
some extent.
Prentice
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