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> In my lab, the exploit is successfully dumping /etc/shadow in a couple of minutes. Gee, I hope my machine has more spectre countermeasures enabled than your
by wyldfire 6y ago
> In my lab, the exploit is successfully dumping /etc/shadow in a couple of minutes.
Gee, I hope my machine has more spectre countermeasures enabled than your lab. This is a crucial omission, IMO.
- jvoisin 6y agoThe whole point of the machine in my lab was to test the exploit…
- wyldfire 6y agoBut you could imagine that an exploit might exist that would defeat the existing countermeasures, and that exploit would probably still be described as a "spectre exploit." So without that explicit context in the article, it's left to the reader to fret over :)