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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
by 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 agoOut of curiosity, what I would be jailbreaking? My x86-64 motherboard that I can boot any OS I want onto?
- qull 4y agoOn 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 agoThey'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?