Linus Says - SPECTRE and MELTDOWN Were NOT Patched

in #hacking7 years ago

SPECTRE and MELTDOWN.

Remember the two security holes found in, mainly, Intel CPUs?

They're not fixed yet and it doesn't seem like Intel is willing.

What did mainstream say again two weeks ago - that patches had been rolled out?

Oh yea. This is Linus Torvalds's post below.

#makeupyourownmind

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.2/04628.html