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> Using Linux should not have stopped anyone from listening to Theo and disabling HT months ago. Iirc OpenBSD actively disabled it for you, making it the defau

• danarmak 7y ago
  If that's true, it's wonderful and I applaud them for making this decision. I haven't been following this conversation closely; is there any serious change of Linux (some distributions, or the kernel upstream) disabling HT by default?
• beefhash 7y ago
  > Iirc OpenBSD actively disabled it for you, making it the default. They have, as of this commit[1] on 2018-06-19. [1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=152943660103446&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=152943660103446&w=2
• baybal2 7y ago
  In fact, cache p3 timing attack was known as "theoretically possible" back in nineties, but was booed out of the conversation by "big name security analysts"
  • h2odragon 7y ago
    "I told you so" gets less satisfying each time you get to say it, yaknow? (* commiseration, no criticism)