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Patched against Meltdown
« on: January 04, 2018, 10:05:34 PM »
I'm sure it's not escaped anyone's notice here that a huge number of Intel CPUs are vulnerable to Meltdown attack, so sorry if the server has been a bit up and down while the kernel was upgraded :)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_meltdown_spectre_bugs_the_registers_annotations/

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Re: Patched against Meltdown
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2018, 02:18:28 AM »
Well done Tony.

Is this something that should be done to all PC or will it happen with normal updates from MS and Linux?
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Re: Patched against Meltdown
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2018, 11:34:40 AM »
Should happen with normal updates over time.
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