Re: [PLUG] sec stuff

[Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:12 AM jeffv via plug
<plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>
> New Bugs Could Let Hackers Bypass Spectre Attack Mitigations On Linux
> Systems
>
> https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/new-bugs-could-let-hackers-bypass.html

I suspect we'll be finding new Spectre bugs in 20 years.  Spectre is a
class of attack, like a buffer overflow.  We'll be finding buffer
overflow bugs in 20 years as well, and those are WAY easier to prevent
than speculative execution attacks.

-- 
Rich
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