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Re:ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Inte... by ahartmetz on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @07:23PM (#19914827)
I remember a leak about a call to become "more agile" like some ARM designers, implying less time spent on verification.
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Re:ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Inte... by redrabbyte on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @07:48PM (#19924896)
verification wouldn't catch any of this, the processors operate correctly on an architectural level

most of this seems to be behaving as intended, they just didn't foresee the side channels this opens up

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