On the topic of explaining Spectre and Meltdown to non technical audience, this is my try (in Italian but Google Translate does a reasonable translation): https

On the topic of explaining Spectre and Meltdown to non technical audience, this is my try (in Italian but Google Translate does a reasonable translation): https://medium.com/@antirez/spectre-e-meltdown-spiegati-al-mio-idraulico-cd4567ce6991 https://medium.com/@antirez/spectre-e-meltdown-spiegati-al-m... The reason why I thought it's so important to do this effort is that, this bug was in the news for days, everybody is going to do upgrades in one way or the other, and even to pay for the performance cost, yet most of the people out there will not understand what it is about. I've the feeling that this disconnects non technical people from technology in a very bad way. That's the reason I believe that divulgation is so crucial.