I believe the point here is this: now that the hacker community knows about these opcodes, they can now focus on other ways to access the functionality. Yes, y

I believe the point here is this: now that the hacker community knows about these opcodes, they can now focus on other ways to access the functionality. Yes, you currently need Intel equipment to access this functionality today, but its quite probable that some innocuous function on the CPU itself can be used to gain access. I mean who would have thought just reading and writing memory you already have access to could be used to exfiltrate system secrets? (Riwhammer)