[RndTbl] Horrific CPU flaws (Meltdown / Spectre)

Gilbert E. Detillieux gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca
Fri Jan 5 12:15:04 CST 2018


An interesting read...

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulnerable-to-spectre-or-meltdown/

It takes a while to get to the point of why the RPi isn't vulnerable, 
but along the way, it nicely illustrates (in fairly accessible language) 
the concepts involved in the exploits.

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