Does anyone know how the linux community has/is responding to this?
TY, Pattim
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/01/scary-chip-flaws-raise-spectre-of-meltdown/#more-42139
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The Meltdown bug affects every Intel processor shipped since 1995 (with the exception of Intel Itanium and Intel Atom before 2013), although researchers said the flaw could impact other chip makers. Spectre is a far more wide-ranging and troublesome flaw, impacting desktops, laptops, cloud servers and smartphones from a variety of vendors.*
Hi
Your about two weeks late… Updates have been done and released, still a few niggles around though. Might have to get microcode updates from your cpu vendor…
The whole Win* and Mac infosphere is beyond fragile - I see it as sort of emblematic of the overall failure of the for-profit approach.
I shudder every time I see someone banking using a cell phone or Win/Mac.
And most of our banks are either Windows or Mac based, I think.
I was just curious how the linux infosphere was doing on this - Krebsonsecurity is all about Win/Mac, so it’s hard to get equivalently in-depth information for linux.
Updates have been done and released, still a few niggles around though. Might have to get microcode updates from your cpu vendor…