For my non-tech followers, specifically my activist followers, you should know that the entire tech industry has been freaking out for the last 36 hours because pretty much all computers are now totally fucked.
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AMD only confirms variation one is in effect (but patches are here) / variation two has near zero risk / variation three has zero risk. Just my 2cents
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"Variant 1" in the P0 blog notation? That's the attack that makes any kind of JIT'd embedded language (JS, Lua, etc.) unsafe and is probably the most likely to be exploited in the wild right away.
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For Firefox users, this should largely mitigate it for now:https://twitter.com/RichFelker/status/948963143195267073 …
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I'm not sure if there is any PoC for them yet, but the underlying mechanisms of the bug are present and so variants should be possible.
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Looks like it has been verified: https://meltdownattack.com/#faq-systems-spectre …pic.twitter.com/c5hm7h07kk
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