Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits

Re:Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exp... by contrarian_ on Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:05PM (#16073077)

2006: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.190...

From the abstract:

> Information leakage through covert channels and side channels is becoming a serious problem, especially when these are enhanced by modern processor architecture features. We show how processor architecture features such as simultaneous multithreading, control speculation and shared caches can inadvertently accelerate such covert channels or enable new covert channels and side channels.

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Re:Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exp... by emn13 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:09PM (#16073112)

Hey, there you go! I kind of doubt Intel really didn't know about this risk.

They were cutting corners; that deserves some opprobrium - especially given their market-dominating position over this timespan.

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