Reply to post: Re: Basically the mfg *promised" both speed and security, but couldn't deliver them

Another Meltdown, Spectre security scare: Data-leaking holes riddle Intel, AMD, Arm chips

Michael Wojcik Silver badge

Re: Basically the mfg *promised" both speed and security, but couldn't deliver them

I wonder how many process crashes over the years could also be traced to miswritten code influencing another process and crashing that instead?

From transient-execution side channels? None, barring major CPU bugs that have mysteriously gone unreported.

I think you do not understand how Spectre-class attacks work.

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