Re:Cloud companies consider Intel rivals after security flaw...
by devonkim on Sunday January 14, 2018 @10:53AM
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I’ve heard some rumblings that this is what some HFT shops were doing years ago to minimize latency and to reduce context switches. Because they already run bare metal and don’t share anything besides a physical facility with their competitors (if even that) the attack vectors are not the same as those running on shared machines either.
Beyond game servers, this could be the mode of operation of e.g. compute cluster nodes, relying on external firewall for security, and running zero untrusted code. Of course they won't care about meltdown or spectre either.