Friday, January 5, 2018

Meltdown and Spectre computer chip flaws

Called Meltdown and Spectre, the flaws exist in processors, a building block of computers that acts as the brain. Modern processors are designed to perform something called "speculative execution." That means they predict what tasks they will be asked to execute and rapidly access multiple areas of memory at the same time.
That data is supposed to be protected and isolated, but researchers discovered that in some cases, the information can be exposed while the processor queues it up.
Researchers say almost every computing system -- desktops, laptops, smartphones, and cloud servers -- is affected by the Spectre bug. Meltdown appears to be specific to Intel (INTC) chips.
"More specifically, all modern processors capable of keeping many instructions in flight are potentially vulnerable. In particular, we have verified Spectre on Intel, AMD, and ARM processors," the researchers said.

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Meltdown, Spectre: Major chip flaws affect billions of devices

So basically this means that if you don't have an Intel chip you only have Spectre problems. But if you do have an Intel Chip you have both Spectre and Meltdown problems potentially.

And if you didn't before, as younger hackers learn about this flaw you are sure to have both problems pretty quickly now worldwide in all devices, especially as governments like Russia and China spend millions or billions to steal all  your financial and personal passwords and information through this method. North Korea is another Government who would love to capitalize on this information too.

Because after all, Why nuke a country when you can steal all their money and destroy their democracy just using the internet and nothing else?

This is the reality of all computer devices connected to the Internet Today!


There are no safe devices on the Internet anymore. This is just reality folks.



What is the solution? There is no permanent solution only temporary ones.

The temporary solution is to change the basic engineering in all chips on earth.

But, here's the thing "THERE IS NO PERMANENT SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM NOW OF VULNERABILITY OF ALL COMPUTER DEVICES CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET.

IT'S NO LONGER A PERMANENTLY SOLVABLE PROBLEM EVER!

THE ONLY PERMANENT SOLUTION WOULD BE TO END THE INTERNET PERMANENTLY.

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