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Meltdown, Spectre: The password theft bugs at the heart of Intel CPUs

Nick L

Re: What I don't understand

I'm no expert at all, but the example exploit relies on using speculative execution to bring out of bounds data into the cache, then hit the cache to get that data... The basic flaw, which as I understand it is that boundary checking can be bypassed through speculative execution then picked out of the cache, seems to be architecture independent as everyone has taken the same approach!

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