[Lilug-si-sig] 10 alarm security fire in all Intel hardware platforms.

[william]

Would serializing the instructions mitigate the issue?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13299969/how-do-i-force-the-cpu-to-perform-in-order-execution-of-a-program-without-any-lo

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018, at 12:53 PM, William Stevenson wrote:
> Would serializing the instructions mitigate the issue?
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13299969/how-do-i-force-the-cpu-to-perform-in-order-execution-of-a-program-without-any-lo
> 
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018, at 5:24 PM, Lee Wilbur wrote:
> > And people thought I was crazy for using AMD.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Behalf Of odinson
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 3:45 PM
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> > Subject: [Lilug-si-sig] 10 alarm security fire in all Intel hardware 
> > platforms.
> > 
> > 
> > Looks like everybody's computer will be getting slower to deal with an 
> > Intel hardware flaw.  VAR and service model companies may eat their 
> > benchmarks here.  Clouds, VM servers, laptops, desktops, servers, 
> > everything.
> > 
> > I would like to point out Linux is discussed the most, not because it's 
> > the most vulnerable but because it's the only scientific collaborative 
> > model.  (the public helps each other in repeatable/reproducible way) 
> > Apple and Microsoft are simply pursuing their best business option from 
> > here and right now that means staying quiet about potentially useful 
> > details until they are satisfied with their fix.
> > 
> > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
> > 
> > 
> > Patch early, patch often, apologize to users for broken promises, buy a 
> > lot of stuff in a panic.
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
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