Chuck, You do have to repower your machine. You never know what is still laying around in memory. If the byte are anywhere in memory, there is always some way to find them.
Dwight ________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 3:17:48 PM To: Sophie Haskins via cctalk Subject: Re: Spectre & Meltdown On 01/04/2018 01:08 PM, Sophie Haskins via cctalk wrote: > It's kind of fascinating to run in to a cross-platform vulnerability > like this! Is anyone else aware of similar vulnerabilities from > history that also affected multiple processors, but relied on their > implementation details? Funny, I've been saying since the 1980s that it you have something that's critical to your survival, keep it offline. Until any of my PCs develop the ability to go to my storage cabinet and fetch a DVD and load it into itself, I'm not sorried. --Chuck
