Horrific Security Flaw Affects Decade of Intel Processors

www.popularmechanics.com ^ | 03 January 2018 | By Eric Limer

[Red Badger]

https://www.windowscentral.com/all-modern-processors-impacted-new-meltdown-and-spectre-exploits

[Red Badger]

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”....Robert Heinlein...............

[JoeProBono]

How to protect your PC against the major ‘Meltdown’ CPU security flaw

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/4/16848976/how-to-protect-windows-pc-meltdown-security-flaw

[Red Badger]

Check up thread. AMD is not immune..........................

[Red Badger]

Thanks , will post................

[usconservative]

Oh fffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudddddddddgggggggeeeeeeeeee!!!

Thanks for posting that link.

[Red Badger]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3619358/posts

[matthew fuller]

" If you do have an AMD processor, however, congratulations—they are confirmed to be safe from the exploit. "

It seems like the experts are conflicted....

[Red Badger]

I think it’s dependent on the age of the processor...............

[PreciousLiberty]

“Mitigations by Linux code-base maintainers are underway, as are changes by Microsoft to protect Windows users. In response to a query, Microsoft told AppleInsider that they had no comment on a timetable of a release to fix the security flaw at this time, but kernel memory handling was altered by the company in Windows 10 beta builds in the end of 2017.”

I’m actually pretty sure this does affect Coffee Lake, which is unfortunate as I’m about to build a Coffee Lake system. I’d prefer a switch to turn off the 10-20% performance hit these fixes will entail. Running any kind of malicious code on a desktop system will pretty much expose everything, so this is security theater except on the server side.

[BereanBrain]

Sometimes the aphorisms are wrong.

I work in the IT industry.

I have been telling people for 20+ years about vulnerabilities and only in the last couple of years are people taking anything seriously.