Re: [PLUG] Meltdown, Spectre and Debian

2018-01-06 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On 06/01/2018, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 17:32 +, shirish शिरीष wrote: >> The only good thing is that it doesn't increase any remote attack >> vector than before but it does mean that people should be more >> circumspect about any software they download at

Re: [PLUG] Meltdown, Spectre and Debian

2018-01-05 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On 5 January 2018 at 23:20, Vikas Tara wrote: > The retpoline approach suggested yesterday looks like it provides a > better approach wrt performance so may be worth waiting: > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Kernel-Retpoline-Patches Ahh yes, that's due to the linker pat

Re: [PLUG] Meltdown, Spectre and Debian

2018-01-05 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On 5 January 2018 at 23:02, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Dear all, > > While I don't want to be the paranoid one here, the situation here > seems to demand it. > > 3 Days back the Register broke the story of a chip vulnerability - > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ > > W

Re: [PLUG] Meltdown, Spectre and Debian

2018-01-05 Thread Vikas Tara
On 05/01/18 17:40, shirish शिरीष wrote: > addition at bottom :- > > On 05/01/2018, shirish शिरीष wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> While I don't want to be the paranoid one here, the situation here >> seems to demand it. >> >> 3 Days back the Register broke the story of a chip vulnerability - >> >> https:

Re: [PLUG] Meltdown, Spectre and Debian

2018-01-05 Thread shirish शिरीष
addition at bottom :- On 05/01/2018, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Dear all, > > While I don't want to be the paranoid one here, the situation here > seems to demand it. > > 3 Days back the Register broke the story of a chip vulnerability - > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_f

[PLUG] Meltdown, Spectre and Debian

2018-01-05 Thread shirish शिरीष
Dear all, While I don't want to be the paranoid one here, the situation here seems to demand it. 3 Days back the Register broke the story of a chip vulnerability - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ While it seeked to paint only Intel, it is now learnt that the issu