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Re:Spectre exploits in the "wild" by 0x0 on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:11AM (#26302891)
That would be interesting to know more about. What's the point of paying the speed hit of spectre (and meltdown?) mitigations if they are ineffective?
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Re:Spectre exploits in the "wild" by Sunspark on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:00PM (#26304923)
It's not worth it on older CPUs. I turned them off.

I understand browsers already have some protection against them now. I don't see the point in slowing down the entire system, either I trust the apps I have or I don't.

I don't believe a magic packet containing a melted down spectre is going to smash through my router and everything else and turn into skynet on my humble PC.

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Re:Spectre exploits in the "wild" by ungamed on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:23AM (#26303567)
Because the current mitigations were believed to attack the known affected code paths.
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Re:Spectre exploits in the "wild" by skynet-9000 on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:00PM (#26310632)
mitigations? you mean exploits?
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Re:Spectre exploits in the "wild" by silly-silly on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:07PM (#26311451)
s/attack/protect/
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