Re:Meltdown Proof-of-Concept
by chx on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @12:51AM
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> In light of that, I would be surprised if the NSA had not known about this.
Call me a tinfoil hat conspiracist but the only rational explanation I can find of IBM POWER and z CPUs still vulnerable to Spectre is the NSA forcing IBM not to fix it. I read somewhere that the z196 had three magnitudes more validation routines than the Intel Core at that time. It's extremely hard to believe they haven't caught this.
Call me a tinfoil hat conspiracist but the only rational explanation I can find of IBM POWER and z CPUs still vulnerable to Spectre is the NSA forcing IBM not to fix it. I read somewhere that the z196 had three magnitudes more validation routines than the Intel Core at that time. It's extremely hard to believe they haven't caught this.