Speculation & meldown. Nothing new!

Tue Jan 16 16:28:56 UTC 2018

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 9:17 PM, Dave B via freebsd-questions <
freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Here you go.  From SN show notes for episode 645, aired last week.
>
> From:-  https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-645-notes.pdf   Page 12 of 13.
>
>
> WhatWhat's Old is New Again...
> 1995: "The Intel 80x86 Processor Architecture: Pitfalls for Secure
> Systems."
> https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2209/42809262c17b6631c0f6536c91aaf7
> 756857.pdf
> 1995: on page 9 under section "4.2 Security Flaws": Item 6. Prefetching
> may fetch otherwise
> inaccessible instructions in Virtual 8086 mode. (From a paper in 1992!)
> -- 25 years ago.
>
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Dave B.
>
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Yea but look at those single core performance speeds!

/s
How does performance stack up now when valid security practices are applied?