Oh for fuck's sake more shitty names. Heartbleed was a great name and technical pun. Shellshock was boring. Meltdown is generic garbage. Spectre isn't even clever. "Skyfall", whatever it is, is even worse. Can we stop this race to the bottom please?https://twitter.com/11rcombs/status/953859524645015552 …
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a better name would be like "specread" or something, since afaik it allows you to read all the contents of memory by using SPECulative execution
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Nope. *Neither* of the two Spectre issues is specific to memory reads. One is about leaks from mispredicted direct branches, the other is about mistraining the indirect branch predictor to leak. Neither specifies *what* you leak and the possibilities depend on code sequences.
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