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Spectre and Meltdown processor security flaws – explained
www.theguardian.com ^
| Thu 4 Jan ‘18 09.20 EST
| Samuel Gibbs
Posted on 01/05/2018 6:33:00 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger; dayglored; ShadowAce
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posted on
01/05/2018 6:37:27 AM PST
by
bitt
(The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; Art in Idaho; ...
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posted on
01/05/2018 6:38:17 AM PST
by
bitt
(The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
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posted on
01/05/2018 6:41:07 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Red Badger
They call this a “bug”. Isn’t it in fact malicious software created by someone? The fact that isn’t mentioned tells me it is likely some Obama deep state concoction. They would be too quick to lay blame on Russia or China otherwise.
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posted on
01/05/2018 6:42:52 AM PST
by
bk1000
(I stand with Trump)
To: bk1000
It’s a physical flaw in the chips, which pre-date Obama...................
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posted on
01/05/2018 6:45:54 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: bk1000
They call this a bug. Isnt it in fact malicious software created by someone? The fact that isnt mentioned tells me it is likely some Obama deep state concoction. They would be too quick to lay blame on Russia or China otherwise.
The flaw is a bug, a design flaw, an exploit would be the malicious software.
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posted on
01/05/2018 6:46:44 AM PST
by
TexasGunLover
("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
To: bk1000
It dates back to 1995, who knows where obama was back then, or much of anything about his various statuses?
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posted on
01/05/2018 6:48:28 AM PST
by
null and void
(this tagline abducted by aliens)
To: Red Badger
It’s not a flaw, it’s a feature!
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posted on
01/05/2018 6:49:47 AM PST
by
null and void
(this tagline abducted by aliens)
To: null and void
For the government!...................
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posted on
01/05/2018 6:51:38 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
For the governments...
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:00:57 AM PST
by
null and void
(this tagline abducted by aliens)
To: null and void
ALL of them...............of course for those who believe in black helicopters and Illuminati and Bilderburgers and Hilton Head, then the ‘s’ isn’t necessary..............
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:03:39 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: null and void
Clinton administration.
Incidentally, I don’t know about you but I recall it floating around that intelligence and law enforcement wanted things like this.
I’m just cynical and suspicious enough to wonder if we’d know about these had Hillary been elected.
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:21:57 AM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Red Badger
Did you know most people do not have an Antivirus program running and could careless , I think this is a bigger problem
To: butlerweave
Some are good and some are terrible. I use Malwarebytes.
But even a bad one is better than none.....................
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posted on
01/05/2018 7:52:16 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: TexasGunLover; bk1000
I suspect that this is not a bug but instead another one of those exploits that the NSA forced on manufacturers and that got stolen from them with the Shadow Brokers issue.
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posted on
01/05/2018 8:37:57 AM PST
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: Red Badger
I doubt this is deliberate, it is a design flaw. A very very subtle one too. Taking advantage of it, effectively, would be very difficult. Yes, you “could” get a password. What you’re really getting is “some data”, you can’t “target” some “password memory” - you’d need to know that a bit of data was a password.
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posted on
01/05/2018 8:58:35 AM PST
by
fuzzylogic
(welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
To: Red Badger
"Its a physical flaw in the chips, which pre-date Obama..................."
Oh, so it's George Bush's fault, huh?
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posted on
01/05/2018 11:59:40 AM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: mass55th
Some go back to 1995.................Clintons...................
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posted on
01/05/2018 12:14:26 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
"Some go back to 1995.................Clintons..................."
Figures...and they were probably made in China too. The Clintons were, and probably still are tight with China.
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posted on
01/05/2018 12:18:04 PM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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