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Meltdown/Spectre week three: World still knee-deep in something nasty

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Re: Intel "shouldn't be selling CPUs?"

Spectre can't be mitigated in software, Genius.

[Snip software mitigation]

And I'm not even 100% certain that either of these would mitigate for the case of an unconditional branch such as call foo@plt.

And you'd be speculating what on an unconditional branch exactly?

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