On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:21:12AM -0500, Allan Streib wrote: > "Alceu R. de Freitas Jr." <glasswal...@yahoo.com.br> writes: > > > I guess Intel does not give a shit about non-profit groups. Linux got > > this attention because there are a lot of players making money from > > it, players that surely have some sort of partnership with Intel. > > From what I have read in the past 24 hours, the spectre attacks are not > limited to Intel CPUs, but in theory could affect any that use > speculative execution (including, at least, modern ARM designs and AMD > processors). > > My uninformed take on this is that when you allow anyone in the world to > run programs on your systems (i.e. JavaScript in browsers, "cloud" > hosted virtual machines running on shared hardware, etc.) these sorts of > things occasionally happen. No CPUs or software are perfectly secure. > > Allan >
>From what I understand, AMD has come out and explicitly said that their architecture isn't and has never been vulnerable, while Intel's said that it affects every processor in the last 20+ years and that it's "not a big deal for most users" because it's only a kernel memory *read*.
