My take on Meltdown and Spectre
It’s not just nasty names…
Introduction
For the past few days there has been a lot of speculation on why certain Linux kernel patches were rushed through.
Somewhere last night, researchers from various origins lifted the shroud and released the so called ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ attacks via https://meltdownattack.com.
In this blog post I will try to give you my take on these two attacks and what they mean to defenders and users of CPUs (yes, that’s you).