Re:CPUs: information leak using speculative execution (2017)
by barsonme on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @02:14PM
(#16108860)
(Just a warning for folks: it's a direct link to a .tar file, not a page with a list of files you can download.)
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Re:CPUs: information leak using speculative execution (2017)
by jamiesonbecker on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:48PM
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Excellent point, and sorry for not pointing that out. Thanks for fixing it.
Re:CPUs: information leak using speculative execution (2017)
by barsonme on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @07:20PM
(#16111479)
No worries, thanks for sharing!
Re:CPUs: information leak using speculative execution (2017)
by saurik on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @02:29PM
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(I haven't felt the need for such a warning since approximately 1998, when people stopped relying so much on third-party web hosting via FTP, and Content-Type fields were generally accurate. I recommend upgrading your web browser: direct links to a tar file no longer cause the entire window to be filled with line noise; and, if you try one of these newer graphical browsers, even if that happens for some reason it doesn't mess up your TTY state.)
Re:CPUs: information leak using speculative execution (2017)
by allannienhuis on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:10PM
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It's courteous to let people know what they link is if it's 'unusual' (not a web page or image), especially when the link is visually truncated.
For people on mobile devices, triggering a download of a large file unexpectedly is annoying and uses up a typically limited resource.