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Buffer the Intel flayer: Chipzilla, Microsoft, Linux world, etc emit fixes for yet more data-leaking processor flaws

DCFusor

Re: All your L1 cache as belong to us

Oh, it gets worse than that, believe me. At any rate, running wireshark or whatever on the same machine is like hoping built-in-test-equipment doesn't BITE. Or that it's safe to let Boeing certify that their software to cover for a bad aerodynamic mod is "safe".

Use another machine for that...

There are levels below the management engine, fwiw. Chris Domas found a way to get down to ring

- (minus!) 2. Yep, that's more than root...and you can persist there, so even the engine can't find you or change your stuff....

See some of the talks in this youtube search:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=god+mode+domas

And people say middlin-average skill attacks must be state sponsored, when we see guys like this, or bunny and xobs doing this level of stuff on their own free time. It takes brains, which often are a significant missing ingredient in "the state".

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