02-17-2018, 11:45 PM
It turns out the Spectre bug is going to be a real nightmare for years to come:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/29/...our_glass/
TL;DR: Spectre can only be mitigated, not fixed. Therefore every computer on earth is at risk of being hacked at any moment via this exploit. With virtual machines, the machines can read each other's memory via this hack. It's very scary. If the wrong people figure out how to mess with this exploit, we are screwed. Everyone is going to need a new computer to be completely safe. And I don't think the chips released in 2018 will even have this issue fixed. Perhaps not in 2019 either. We could see some major cyber attacks. This is very bad news.
What gets me is that AMD made a big stink about Meltdown when Spectre has been the much bigger deal all along. The Meltdown patch fully patches the exploit.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/29/...our_glass/
TL;DR: Spectre can only be mitigated, not fixed. Therefore every computer on earth is at risk of being hacked at any moment via this exploit. With virtual machines, the machines can read each other's memory via this hack. It's very scary. If the wrong people figure out how to mess with this exploit, we are screwed. Everyone is going to need a new computer to be completely safe. And I don't think the chips released in 2018 will even have this issue fixed. Perhaps not in 2019 either. We could see some major cyber attacks. This is very bad news.
What gets me is that AMD made a big stink about Meltdown when Spectre has been the much bigger deal all along. The Meltdown patch fully patches the exploit.