I'm just going to point out that the people involved in coordinating disclosure on Meltdown/Spectre have done a terrible job of agreeing on names/categories for the various bugs and CPU impact. Even post-disclosure there's still a mess of speculation on what bug affects what CPUs
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The academics call them Meltdown/Spectre, Google calls them Variant 1-3 (each with a CVE), and there's no good matrix of what bug affects what (which CPUs, kernel leaks, same-context leaks, cross-process leaks, etc).
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FUCKWIT is an early joke name for the KPTI mitigation.
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