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If you want security, disable hyper-threading, says Linux kernel maintainer
- the-dude 7y agoDidn't one of the main OpenBSD maintainers suggest this like 10-15 years ago? Unable to find it. edit : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading#Security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading#Security "In May 2005, Colin Percival demonstrated that a malicious thread on a Pentium 4 can use a timing attack to monitor the memory access patterns of another thread with which it shares a cache, allowing the theft of cryptographic information."