On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Henning Brauer wrote:
* Steve Shockley <steve.shock...@shockley.net> [2009-11-09 04:59]:
On 11/8/2009 7:40 PM, Henning Brauer wrote:
cpu0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.61 GHz
cpu1: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.61 GHz
cpu2: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.61 GHz
cpu3: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.61 GHz
They brought back hyper-threading? Huh.
two cores * two threads, yes. and I see nothing wrong with that.
Do things like this still apply? Is hyper-threading still considered
insecure?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthreading#Security
In its Pentium 4 era it was recommended to always disable HT for security
reasons.
Regards,
David
