On Wed, Jan 3, 2018, at 2:35 PM, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/19/intels-ceo-just-sold-a-lot-of-stock.aspx > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ > > Lev just tweeted the above links. This is annoying, it means rebooting all > systems with Intel CPUs for which security is important and also ongoing > performance loss for all modern systems with Intel CPUs. > > People who care about performance not security (EG gamers and people who > mostly do compiles) could run in a less secure mode (run an old kernel or > maybe a newer kernel patched to turn off this security feature).
As long as they *never* run interpreted code, e.g. JavaScript, then *maybe* that's okay. Even if you're mostly doing compiles, you do trust the MMU to isolate those processes, so you probably need the fix too. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
