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Horrific Security Flaw Affects Decade of Intel Processors
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| 03 January 2018
| By Eric Limer
Posted on 01/03/2018 1:55:39 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: usconservative
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posted on
01/04/2018 6:34:33 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: circlecity
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”....Robert Heinlein...............
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01/04/2018 6:35:53 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/04/2018 6:40:43 AM PST
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JoeProBono
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To: Pollard
Check up thread. AMD is not immune..........................
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posted on
01/04/2018 6:41:09 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: JoeProBono
Thanks , will post................
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posted on
01/04/2018 6:43:17 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
Oh fffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudddddddddgggggggeeeeeeeeee!!!
Thanks for posting that link.
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posted on
01/04/2018 6:49:52 AM PST
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: usconservative
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posted on
01/04/2018 6:51:50 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
" If you do have an AMD processor, however, congratulationsthey are confirmed to be safe from the exploit. "It seems like the experts are conflicted....
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posted on
01/04/2018 6:57:30 AM PST
by
matthew fuller
(Out with Jeff- In with Rudy!)
To: matthew fuller
I think it’s dependent on the age of the processor...............
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posted on
01/04/2018 6:59:28 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
“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.
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01/04/2018 8:58:53 AM PST
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PreciousLiberty
(Make America Greater Than Ever!)
To: Red Badger
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.
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