Hacking at the break of noon
Foreshadows Intel’s sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There’s no sense in tryin’.
But the rules of the net have been lodged
It’ only hacker’s games
That you got to dodge
And it’s alright Ma
It’s Intel bleedin’.
Like last time this is mainly a cloud problem. Those of us with cheap virtual servers are finding out some of the drawbacks, although not me personally, not yet. Meanwhile people running home computers have to remember that all of these exploits require rogue code running on your PC. It's not clear whether than can just be javascript in your browser (I would never run flash, silverlight or any similar crap ever). The remote code needs to run precise timing tests numerous times in order to eavesdrop on protected code and data.
An average joe practicing safe computing (don't allow rogue software) should be fine. Rogue software would be problematic or fatal even without these new bugs.
If some of these haxor doods started disappearing in small clouds of energetic dust, and the platform/application providers were required (under penalty of lost revenue) to provide better more secure code, maybe these things would happen less often.
Just sayin’
KYPD