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Are Spectre and Meltdown just hype?

Posted by bob on · 3 comments
CSO Online; By Hugh Darvall 		Mail this story
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There has been much hype around the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities that emerged in January, a huge impact in the world of software vulnerabilities. While some of this is justified by the fact that those vulnerabilities affected a majority of all processors in the market, the reality is that this was just another vulnerability on top of all the others in the market, which security professionals need to assess and manage every day.

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Comments (3)

cjcox ·
What a waste.

Maybe tomorrow they could post "N. Korea, launches!"

Bet everyone will read that one.
seatex ·
Well, Intel sure wanted us to think so.
flufferbeer ·
@cjcox

>> Bet everyone will read that one.

And none other than some carefully-crafted FUD to get people to read THIS one. Sure seems to me that there's been a bit of an ongoing FUD history to ths writer

- 'Ignorance of open source law is no defense', https://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/opinion/20978-ignorance-of-...

- The not very pro-F/OSS Director of Australia and New Zealand's PROPRIETARY Flexera product and IP; Flexera, "the company that’s reimagining how software is bought, sold, managed and secured" https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/09/07/1113964/0/...

- More FUD at 'When Freedom Comes at a Cost', https://techinvest.online/freedom-comes-cost/

2c

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