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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by gnicholas on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:10PM (#16065177)
> What isn’t my at all clear (to me) is what they mean by ”will be mitigated over time”. Are they implying that when we buy new professors (from them) there’ll be a hardware fix that won’t require the performance-sapping patch?

Another possible interpretation: the early patches will create performance issues, but we'll issue subsequent patches that will make the performance issues less noticeable.

Not saying this is the right interpretation, just another possibility.

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Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings by qubex on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:51PM (#16065569)
That's probably a more accurate interpretation, but the wording is maddeningly ambiguous... just the fact that we can sit here and posit such wildly divergent interpretations is testament to how utterly woolly the statement itself is.
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