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I think he or she is drawing an analogy between Intel and Google both "cutting corners" to save costs, which worked well for them in the short term but had unfo
by goatinaboat 7y ago
I think he or she is drawing an analogy between Intel and Google both "cutting corners" to save costs, which worked well for them in the short term but had unforeseen consequences for everyone else over the longer term. This could be an instance of the famous "tragedy of the commons".
- bb88 7y agoIf DEC had won, would we have the same issue? "In some cases there’s non-privileged access to suitable timers. For example, in the essentially obsolete Digital/Compaq Alpha processors the architecture includes a processor cycle counter that is readable with a non-privileged instruction. That makes attacks based on timing relatively easy to implement if you can execute appropriate code." I still call bullshit on his entire hypothesis. https://hackaday.com/2018/01/10/spectre-and-meltdown-attackers-always-have-the-advantage/ https://hackaday.com/2018/01/10/spectre-and-meltdown-attacke...