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Spectre-infested computer, you say? Yes, thanks to CPU manufacturers.

• jimmaswell 4y ago
  Why haven't Spectre et al been used as vectors to jailbreak old hardware yet? I get the impression they're not that practical of vectors and we freaked out and hobbled our cpu performance with patches for nothing.
  • sidewndr46 4y ago
    Out of curiosity, what I would be jailbreaking? My x86-64 motherboard that I can boot any OS I want onto?
    • qull 4y ago
      On someone elses boot code. There are tons of blobs from the cpu onward. Your x8664 mobo and cpu are anything but unlocked or open.
  • yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
    They're only useful for reading things out of memory, not writing. So it's not immediately obvious how you would use them to jailbreak a machine?