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Intel CPUs Vulnerable to New 'BranchScop
Wyatt Thomas
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Jace Nelson
Intel CPUs could be Facebook on a chip levels of giving your data away, and Intel PR could make it all go away.
Levi Carter
From the Arse article, Intel says
I read it as
Leo Walker
I read it as “The goyim know!!!”
Elijah Carter
Garbage OP. You didn't even explain what it is.
To say it simply, this attack allows you to determine if a path (branch, if statement, etc) is taken or not in the victim program.
You can think of this as vaguely similar to a power analysis attack where you can see the processor using more power when it takes a branch.
Unlike spectre which extracted memory contents, this only extracts the knowledge if a branch is taken or not. This could be used further in a more complicated attack similar to how spectre used the cache as its side channel.
Jason Diaz
So it sounds like an easy fix that can be patched in microcode without any issues
Asher Johnson
it doesn't matter anymore. the goyim are now desensitized to these security problems.
Alexander Allen
Just as long as every motherboard manufacturer puts out a firmware update for all their products
Jaxson Jackson
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Colton Hall
That's exactly how open source was sold to corporates, so what did you expect.