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Spectre could too, but again, my point was that I didn't hear of actual attacks on people in the wild, at least not on any scale that seemed to make the news. I
by dataflow 5y ago
Spectre could too, but again, my point was that I didn't hear of actual attacks on people in the wild, at least not on any scale that seemed to make the news. Is there a reason to believe this will be different?
- 1e-9 5y agoIt can take months or even years for proof-of-concepts to become widespread in the wild, particularly by those sloppy enough to be easily detected.
- panny 5y ago>I didn't hear of actual attacks on people in the wild You never would. It's a passive attack. It's measuring response time to normal operations to discover secrets. https://mlq.me/download/netspectre.pdf https://mlq.me/download/netspectre.pdf "Software based side-channel attacks are particularly unsettling since they do not require physical access to the device."
- baybal2 5y agoThe first known Spectre-like concept was actually traced to Pentium 3 times in nineties. It took 2 decades for everybody to forget about it before the vulnerability dismissed as "not exploitable in the practice" came back with a vengeance.
- lilSebastian 5y agoI'd really appreciate a link to this, sounds really interesting.
- mhh__ 5y agoIt's on Wikipedia (away from pc) on the meltdown article