[Info-vax] Intel x86-64 Processor Design Security Vulnerability?

[johnson.eric at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 11:20:30 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> There's speculation around a potential security vulnerability and 
> related information embargo, involving various Intel x86-64 processors, 
> in the implementations of memory management and speculative execution.

Hopefully a similar vulnerability does not exist in Itanium. Seems
unlikely as they are different architectures. 

EJ