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New 'Spoiler' vulnerability in all Intel Core processors exposed by researchers
appleinsider.com ^
| 3/7/2019
| Malcolm Owen
Posted on 03/07/2019 7:50:15 PM PST by bitt
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posted on
03/07/2019 7:50:15 PM PST
by
bitt
To: dayglored; ShadowAce; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...
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posted on
03/07/2019 7:51:03 PM PST
by
bitt
(Is the PAIN coming???)
To: bitt
Billions of transistors, all off on their own, doing whatever.
What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
03/07/2019 7:53:33 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: bitt
Can’t tell the bugs from the features...
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posted on
03/07/2019 7:53:51 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: bitt
Sounds like a lot of work beyond my capability to breach someone’s system. I’ll wait till the AAP comes out.
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posted on
03/07/2019 7:54:40 PM PST
by
Cold Heart
(Oregon, tyranny and taxes)
To: bitt
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posted on
03/07/2019 7:55:25 PM PST
by
granite
(The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: bitt
Need the “Executive Summary” in ENGLISH, Please.
Not all Freepers are software geeks!
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posted on
03/07/2019 7:58:14 PM PST
by
TaMoDee
(The Pack will be back in 2019! Go Pack!!)
To: bitt
Well, in 2020 Apple will supposedly stop using Intel chips.
Until then....
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posted on
03/07/2019 7:58:50 PM PST
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: All
My next computer is going to be AI designed and built in China. I expect it will be great.
/s
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posted on
03/07/2019 8:01:28 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Dad, Send lawyers, guns and money.)
To: mrsmith
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posted on
03/07/2019 8:03:38 PM PST
by
bitt
(Is the PAIN coming???)
To: dayglored; ShadowAce; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...
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posted on
03/07/2019 8:08:18 PM PST
by
bitt
(Is the PAIN coming???)
To: mrsmith
I was taught that ALL bugs are FEATURES!
Bill Gate$ says.......
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posted on
03/07/2019 8:14:05 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: bitt
To: bitt
Will there be a recall and of course refunds? /sarc
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posted on
03/07/2019 8:29:26 PM PST
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: TaMoDee
I AM a GEEK. My job used to be to extend the sample BIOS supplied by Intel to take advantage of new Reliability And Serviceability (RAS) features for the three operating systems which run on the servers manufactured by my company.
“Physical address bits are security sensitive information and if they are available to user space, it elevates the user to perform other micro architectural attacks.”
There must be something else going on here, because this doesn’t make sense to a geek.
It wouldn’t be the first time that the technical writer scrambles the message. But the capability described above wouldn’t make me lose any sleep.
To: mrsmith
I recall the Clinton Administration being said to have wanted bugs like these.
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posted on
03/07/2019 8:47:00 PM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: the_Watchman
Engineers etc are rarely required to actually learn how to write good. *nudge*wink*
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posted on
03/07/2019 8:49:41 PM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: bitt
Greeeat. Do I need to wait for the next scam call from “Hardeep” (AKA “John”) addressing this problem?
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; Ernest_at_the_Beach; martin_fierro; ...
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posted on
03/08/2019 3:40:36 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: the_Watchman; TaMoDee
I agree with The Watchman. I would also point out that the way this works is that the bad guys are running user mode code on your computer. They can't do anything remotely. If they run user mode code on your computer, it's mostly game over even before these kinds of bugs which mostly allow privilege elevation.
In theory the user mode code could include javascript that you loaded simply by visiting a website. But I am pretty sure a javascript exploit will never come to fruition. Not only that, but a browser can defend against such an attack rather easily by small randomizations in javascript execution.
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posted on
03/08/2019 4:30:55 AM PST
by
palmer
(...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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