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Google engineer urges web devs to step up and secure their code in this data-spilling Spectre-haunted world

Martin Gregorie

Re: Doomed

A new hardware and OS architecture bearing a strange resemblance to the hardware rings of protection used by operating systems like ICL's VME/B (and possibly also the Burroughs B-series and IBM/s progressively renamed Future Series->System/38->AS/400->I-Series hardware) could be as good as way as any of preventing this sort of cross-process data-stealing bug.

I've designed systems and written code for VME/B systems and never heard even a rumour of process-process interference occurring. Same for the AS/400.

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