[TriLUG] Intel bug in the news today

[Steve Holton via TriLUG]

This is probably the best one-paragraph summary we're likely to find at
this point.

From: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/todays-cpu-
vulnerability-what-you-need.html

In order to improve performance, many CPUs may choose to speculatively
execute instructions based on assumptions that are considered likely to be
true. During speculative execution, the processor is verifying these
assumptions; if they are valid, then the execution continues. If they are
invalid, then the execution is unwound, and the correct execution path can
be started based on the actual conditions. It is possible for this
speculative execution to have side effects which are not restored when the
CPU state is unwound, and can lead to information disclosure.


On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 5:00 PM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> The data, which is readily available for 2016-2017 by search-fu and
> hence I will not bother linking to, once again shows that Americans are
> paying a lot more for a lot less data and bandwidth than much of the
> rest of the world.
>
> Putting corporations above people, that American exceptional-ism.
>
> On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 16:56 -0500, Thomas Delrue via TriLUG wrote:
> > I know it's a bit of apples and oranges, but we could look at Europe
> > as
> > well as a bunch of other countries who aren't pulling these types of
> > shenanigans that so blatantly put corporations above people...
> > We'd be able to look at them... but if and only if our ISPs grant us
> > that privilege!
> >
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