Re: Making Computers Secure

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From: Charles Richmond
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:06

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On 2/1/2018 1:49 PM, Quadibloc wrote:
> On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 12:37:35 PM UTC-7, Andrew Swallow wrote:
> 
>> Recently two chip level security breaches have been revealed, one of
>> which works on ARM chips.
> 
> You wouldn't happen to be talking about Meltdown and Spectre by any chance,
> would you?
> 
> But _both_ Meltdown and Spectre work on ARM chips; Spectre, but not Meltdown,
> works on AMD chips as well.
> 

Meltdown and Spectre do *not* work on the less powerful ARM chips on the 
Raspberry Pi boards.


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numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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From: Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com>
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Subject: Re: Making Computers Secure
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