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I believe the “metal” variants expose the processor extensions you’d need to discover Meltdown.
by QuinnyPig 7y ago
I believe the “metal” variants expose the processor extensions you’d need to discover Meltdown.
- ec109685 7y agoThat’s a good point. And AWS allows this type of security research as well freely: https://twitter.com/TeriRadichel/status/1101228943128969218 https://twitter.com/TeriRadichel/status/1101228943128969218
- floatboth 7y agoAlso, AWS processors use off-the-shelf Arm Cortex/Neoverse cores, and stuff like Spectre is core-level.