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No, but I can establish context in about 10 seconds, and then it doesn't matter. And you won't remember what WhizzyBadBug refers to in 5 years, you'll have to
by _jal 4y ago
No, but I can establish context in about 10 seconds, and then it doesn't matter.
And you won't remember what WhizzyBadBug refers to in 5 years, you'll have to look it up. It'll only take you 10 seconds or so.
- tptacek 4y agoI don't know. The example you chose was Meltdown. I think most people in the field heard Meltdown and can at least place it into the right bucket, of microarchitectural attacks. But more to the point: Meltdown in the moment was far more useful than a CVE number.