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Did they ever fix the security flaw you found?

• cperciva 19y ago
  Who is "they", and which security flaw are you talking about? I've found several over the years...
  • aswanson 19y ago
    They being Linus,et al, and the flaw being the one referenced here: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/17/201253 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/17/201253.
    • cperciva 19y ago
      Some linux distributions disabled hyperthreading by default as I recommended; others didn't. Some cryptographic libraries have fixed some of the more obvious ways that this can be exploited, but no library is completely immune. Intel hasn't done useful at all.