This speculation saga just keeps getting worse and worse, which goes on to show that there's a huge disconnect between CPU designers and security researchers. This is the CPU equivalent of foo = bar[untrusted]; if (untrusted > bound) return 0; do_stuff(foo);. Who does that?!
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"Let's use garbage bits for something, it's fine, we'll throw away the result later". No. No it isn't fine. Why the fuck would that ever be a good idea? If you can't take the fault immediately at least poison the garbage data with zeroes!
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Yes it was because they'll have to sell replacement chips for the world ;) And while selling these faulty chips they competed based on performance and not security. ;)
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Well, you have kind of already lived this one out with UDEREF :P
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