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AMD, boffins clash over chip data-leak claims: New side-channel holes in decades of cores, CPU maker disagrees

Grikath

All of them should be....

The attack requires the attacker to run his own code on your machine. This means a side channel attack is the least of your worries, since you've been pwned already. Once that happens your flavour of OS or hardware isn't exactly relevant anymore, isn't it?

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