AnalysisCVE-2017-5753CVE-2017-5715CVE-2017-5754
Spectre and Meltdown: When the CPU's Cleverness Became a Leak
Modern processors guess ahead to go faster. Spectre and Meltdown showed that guessing leaves traces an attacker can read. A plain explainer of speculative execution side channels.
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