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dirtbox | 8 years ago

It's the type of announcement that makes me wonder if they had the chip makers incorporate it specifically for them to exploit.

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mehrdadn|8 years ago

> It's the type of announcement that makes me wonder if they had the chip makers incorporate it specifically for them to exploit.

...sorry, what?

It makes you wonder if the NSA had chip makers incorporate speculative execution and caching because... timing attacks?

dirtbox|8 years ago

No.

It's just that it's highly suspicious that anyone is making any type of mention of it at all.