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SPOILER alert, literally: Intel CPUs afflicted with simple data-spewing spec-exec vulnerability

Wayland

Re: It's interesting...

>there's no way of ensuring one has full control of that computer.

I remember when we first started putting Windows 3.1 on our DOS computers. In the DOS days we knew what every file did. If a new file turned up we wanted to know where it came from and what it was for. If not needed it got deleted.

My friend was tearing his hair out trying to keep on top of Windows 3.1 using this method. I told him to give up, that he could never know what all the files did.

That was when we let go of total control of our PCs.

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