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Was is a unintentional bug, or was a deliberate design tradeoff favoring performance over security?
by em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
Was is a unintentional bug, or was a deliberate design tradeoff favoring performance over security?
- int0x80 9y agoI'm assuming the former, but I could be wrong.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoThe risk of speculative updates to branch predictor and page tables was known to the research community for a while. Even if it was initially an unintentional bug, they had plenty of time to take precautions against it by prohibiting speculative updates.