I should at first point out that I am by no definition an expert on CPU design, operating systems, or infosec. But I just remembered that years ago the FreeBSD

I should at first point out that I am by no definition an expert on CPU design, operating systems, or infosec. But I just remembered that years ago the FreeBSD developers discovered a vulnerability in Intel's Hyperthreading that could allow a malicious process to read other processes' memory.[1] To the degree that I understand what is going on here, that sounds very similar to the way the current vulnerabilities work. For a while, back then, I was naive enough to think this would be the end of SMT on Intel CPUs, but I was very wrong about that. So I am wondering - is this just a funny coincidence, or could people have seen this coming back then? [1] http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful/ http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful...