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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by teraflop on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:27PM (#16066858)
The Spectre paper includes this line in the acknowledgements:

> We would like to thank Intel for their professional handling of this issue through communicating a clear timeline and connecting all involved researchers.

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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by nasredin on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:19AM (#16068756)
So Google people and the Germans were working on the same thing without knowing of each other until Intel connected them?
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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by consp on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:49AM (#16069086)
Graz is in Austria, but considering these things are usually kept quiet quite long: probably yes
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