These exploits are nasty but if they've been in Intel chips ever since they started implementing out-of-order execution in 1995 then surely if there was a serious real-world threat we would have seen it long ago?
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, at 7:46 PM, Ken Dibble wrote: > Virtually everything we do here involves HIPAA-sensitive information, > but we have very robust perimeter defenses. I'm much more concerned > about a potential 30%+ performance loss in systems that are > constantly used by nearly a hundred people every day. > > >The exploit allows VMs to go into the memory space of other VMs. > >Very bad. Unless you don't have any sensitive info that needs to > >stay that way. > > > >-- > > > >rk > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ken > >Dibble > >Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 1:35 PM > >To: profoxt...@leafe.com > >Subject: Re: [NF] Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaw Information > > > >I just can't wait to see what it's going to do to my highly > >virtualized network--if I ever decide to let it through. Probably a > >smaller version of what it's already started to do to some commercial > >cloud systems. > > > >Windows Automatic Updates: Just Say No. (TM) > > > > >Also, kudos to Microsoft for shipping their patches a week early, and > > >spontaneously rebooting idle Windows workstations while people were > > >freaking out over the new exploits. Good job! > > > > > >On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Ken Dibble <krdib...@stny.rr.com> wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > Ask Woody has a very thorough report on this, with links to more > > > > information. > > > > > > > > We all need to be fully informed about this; it is going to affect > > > > everybody. > > > > > > > > https://www.askwoody.com/ > > > > > > > > Ken Dibble > > > > www.stic-cil.org > > > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1515140886.815878.1225027584.154a1...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
