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intel.com/content/www/us/en/se

"Systems using Intel® Core-based microprocessors may potentially allow a local process to infer data [...] from another process through a speculative execution side channel."

oh COME ON Intel not again

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This is the goddamn SIXTH side-channel and/or speculation issue. That's it. I'm joining team red.

@sn0w I can relate. I don’t want to hear about hardware security for a while after the end of my PhD thesis.

@sn0w deja vu
I have seen this bug before
so speculative
and they know there will be much more

Also in case you were wondering: Intel's latest CPU sadness leaks the contents of your SSE/AVX/MMX registers. This is hilariously bad because SSE registers are often used to store AES encryption keys.

It's currently not known if it's possible to exploit this remotely (eg through a web browser).