Hah.  That’s pretty much the end.
The out-of-order-execution machinery has a (poker) ‘give’ that can be exploited.
Of course it could.  Probably has been in use for years.  Wow.



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On Jan 4, 2018, at 7:03 PM, Gillian Densmore 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

I don't pretend to have some of the tech reading skills to have followed that 
article well. Is what it saying is Intell CPU's are bad about making sure it 
has enough extra hands hands to  make sure they can do something before doing 
so. And that basically it's possible to basically make a smart are program that 
tells your computers brain it can do something and not to bother checking, no 
really don't bother  if it can do something

Question: How realisticly likely (or do able) is that? and isn't that quite a 
bit like many of the jerk  fake websites wich spam Chrome/Chromium  browsers  
trolling scripts that say: your computer has a bug a bajillion times so as the 
browers goes kaboom? On windows 10 almost all of them try to look like a fake 
patch or flash update or something and make an obnoxous beep or alert type of 
sound "your computer is infected! call MS tech Support  " If that's oddly 
specific I have run into that. particular one. Their's probably others like it.

So if I read this right: a Meltdown/Spectre style aholery tells your computer a 
whoper of a story. Realy fast in the hopes, of burning through more brain power 
than it has? Didn't we have this in the 80's and 90's?  Something like a DDOS 
and Ping of Doom and other similler issues?  Didn't they fix that after 
Anonymous found out how to crash the whole Sony Network just bey changing their 
clocks?(and doing the same to Battlenet/D) many years ago? I know they crashed 
battle.net<http://battle.net> using a fake patch that basically told a whoper 
to blizzards (then) only clock, such that when people updated to a fake patch 
it kept doing so (9999999 times a second because the clock was lied to)

I don't know what was more impressive that they could make a fake patch, [and 
users didn't know it was fake including me]Or that no one at blizzard or 
activision checked , or that patch bassically sat in 2billion peoples cache for 
almost 3 months

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Spectre/Meltdown look to be in the same 
vane.but (possible) able to reak much more havoc.

The technique of lying to the computers memory is strangely similler how some 
game bots work. Is that for speed? or just a limitation of processors? if you 
know. I am genuinely curius^_^

et.worldofwarcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Warden_(software)<http://et.worldofwarcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Warden_(software)>
<https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=zNlOWtDLKqrAjwSvvaDICA&q=wow+game+bots+warden&oq=wow+game+bots+warden&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i22i29i30k1.405.7040.0.7446.21.20.0.0.0.0.128.1941.13j7.20.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..1.18.1791.0..0j35i39k1j0i131k1j0i20i264k1j0i131i20i264k1j0i20i264i46k1j46i20i264k1j0i22i30k1j33i160k1.0.bv_7I0k1L_0#>

  1.  
<http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Vm9K23B41ZAJ:et.worldofwarcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Warden_(software)+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us>
  2.  
<https://www.google.com/search?q=related:et.worldofwarcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Warden_(software)+wow+game+bots+warden&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ9Nva2r_YAhXWqYMKHYd1Dp0QHwgtMAA>

For example on the legit side:Warden (WarCrafts memory and saftey system) helps 
tell legit bots (called mobs and NPC's)  what to do. It's possible to mis-lead 
Warden in a simillar way as spectre, Some scripting stunts (cache from LUA for 
example)

can at  ask Warden what it's thinging about (IF ha ha haha the Warden+LuA key 
chained API  hahahahah hasn't changed a running joke for LUA enthusiasts 
because it will  )

On the good side that meens realy bad ass things like tweaking textures or how 
some stuff to just your computer looks, or adding nice quality of life things.

However some people use that to cheat well beyond what the company allows and I 
can't help but wonder if iSpectre/Meltdown use simillar tricks just because the 
way it looks to work to me is very simillar to  how some game bots and Mobs 
work.



On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:10 PM, cody dooderson 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Does anyone know if the Ethereum cryptocurrency is affected by these bugs? I 
think it has some sort of distributed scripting based on javascript.

Cody Smith

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 3:26 PM, glen ep ropella 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'm sure you're all already aware... But just in case:

Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html

--
glen


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