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Re:Microsoft Offers Bug Bounty to Prevent Another Spectre-Me... by amelius on Saturday March 17, 2018 @05:45PM (#16609231)
Perhaps an ignorant question, but does there already exist a practical demonstration of the Spectre/meltdown bugs, or are they still theoretical?
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Re:Microsoft Offers Bug Bounty to Prevent Another Spectre-Me... by rejectedalot on Saturday March 17, 2018 @05:59PM (#16609273)
See section 4.3 in the Spectre paper - https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf

It includes an implementation of the exploit in a few lines of javascript.

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Re:Microsoft Offers Bug Bounty to Prevent Another Spectre-Me... by IncRnd on Saturday March 17, 2018 @05:58PM (#16609271)
They were never theoretical.
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