Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by mikeash on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:42AM (#16061873)

If “reading secret data out of kernel memory” translates into “read the page cache from a stranger’s VM that happens to be on the same cloud server” then this could be worse than Heartbleed.

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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by 0x0 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:06AM (#16062109)

Or maybe random javascript in the browser can stroll upon your ssh private key in the kernel's file cache... and so on.

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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by mikeash on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:10AM (#16062147)

Excellent point, I didn't think about the implications for stuff like JavaScript.

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