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In the old days this would be no biggie as every non-trivial site would have at least half a dozen different kinds of Unix workstations anyway. SPARC, MIPS, PA-

• mtanski 9y ago
  In the good old days everybody just used HTTP, FTP and telnet and NIS. Old archs also has other bugs we forgot about / never discovered.
  • gaius 9y ago
    The point being: monocultures are fragile.
    • mtanski 9y ago
      Spectre impacts current iterations of: x86, ARM and Power. It's most likely impacts other archs that have variants of CPUs with out-of-order execution.
      • gaius 9y ago
        Spectre is harder to exploit - it’s the Intel-specific one that’s the biggie.
• acdha 9y ago
  You think it'd be less work having to coordinate with even more vendors than listed in the advisory?