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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-01-02, johnson.eric at gmail.com <johnson.eric at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. 
>

What you should be worried about is the possibility of deliberate
backdoors inserted in CPU architectures by the intelligence agencies.

Simon.

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