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		int0x80 on Jan 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is it time for open processors? I'm assuming the former, but I could be wrong.

em3rgent0rdr on Jan 20, 2018 [–]

The risk of speculative updates to branch predictor and page tables was known to the research community for a while. Even if it was initially an unintentional bug, they had plenty of time to take precautions against it by prohibiting speculative updates.

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