The Spectre and Meltdown attacks are as unanticipated as the incompleteness theorem and failure of naive set theory. Though the issue is easy to see now, simply none of the world’s smartest chip designers had anticipated that system integrity could fail in this way.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic
Indeed, my first response when reading up on how Spectre works was "wow, that's kinda obvious and nobody has [publicly] considered that for 20 years?" - but then, I guess most security issues are "obvious" in retrospect. Hindsight is 20/20.
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Replying to @jonasechterhoff
Yeah, that’s what reminded me of naive set theory. It seemed sound by the very nature of mathematics, but then some hacker builds the set of all sets that don’t contain themselves...
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