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Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept by mehrdadn on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @07:56PM (#16111680)
> It's the type of announcement that makes me wonder if they had the chip makers incorporate it specifically for them to exploit.

...sorry, what?

It makes you wonder if the NSA had chip makers incorporate speculative execution and caching because... timing attacks?

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Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept by dirtbox on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @11:45AM (#16116457)
No.

It's just that it's highly suspicious that anyone is making any type of mention of it at all.

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