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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Is that confirmed? Last I read, the researchers hadn't tested it that far.
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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 still a bit skeptical (ARM, too? There's tons of variants) but all the more reason for the world to move on from x86
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It's not an implementation bug but a fundamental design flaw in the principles behind out-of-order execution. That's why it's so universal.
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