Spectre and Meltdown and everything to come

Dnaiel

New Member
So, it looks like we're on the horizon of a grim future for hardware security. Tell me, is it so hard to accept the vulnerabilities inherent in hardware design and instead focus resources in developing software answers, specifically using perhaps AI to monitor and stop hardware exploitation? I'm thinking that's about the only solution strategy that developers could focus on.
 

Agent Smith

Well-Known Member
Spectre and Meltdown are largly a non issue for your normal desktop. It's servers like the cloud where it will be more of a problem.
 

Dnaiel

New Member
Well, so far no one has explained it; I have nothing more than denial. But every report I read tells me that desktops are affected. Even Microsoft released patches for Meltdown and Spectre. Straight from Microsoft:

Affected chips include those that are manufactured by Intel, AMD, and ARM. This means that all devices that are running Windows operating systems are potentially vulnerable. This includes desktops, laptops, cloud servers, and smartphones. Devices that are running other operating systems, such as Android, Chrome, iOS, and Mac OS, are also affected. We advise customers who are running these operating systems to seek guidance from those vendors.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...your-windows-devices-against-spectre-meltdown

So is there a source someone can provide to support above denials?
 

Cromewell

Administrator
Staff member
The are affected. The impact is simply less than cloud providers. Imagine running a secure VM operating a banking app in AWS and some one spins up another VM that happens to reside on the same hypervisor. This second VM could read the memory of the your banking app. On a desktop this is much less of a concern. Since presumably you are running everything yourself (or as you).
 

Darren

Moderator
Staff member
The are affected. The impact is simply less than cloud providers. Imagine running a secure VM operating a banking app in AWS and some one spins up another VM that happens to reside on the same hypervisor. This second VM could read the memory of the your banking app. On a desktop this is much less of a concern. Since presumably you are running everything yourself (or as you).
To add to this, the security threat is going to be much more profitable/worthwhile for a hacker if targeting an organization (with lots of important and valuable data) veruss your average PC gamer or old lady checking Facebook and playing Candy Crush.
 

Agent Smith

Well-Known Member
old lady checking Facebook and playing Candy Crush.


LOL That game needs to die.


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Agent Smith

Well-Known Member
Only that its a game that ranks right up there with that of games monkeys play to get food. The psychological aspect is that of slot machines where you are rewarded and keep coming back, mean while you're paying to play with little reward.

You wanna play an asinine Facebook game, try Texas hold 'em "Sonny boy."
 
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