Google Researchers Say Spectre Will Haunt Us for Years
According to a paper by several Google researchers, speculative vulnerabilities currently defeat all programming-language-level means of enforcing information confidentiality. This would not be just an incidental property of how we build our systems, but rather the result of wrong mental models that led us to trade security for performance without knowing it. Our paper shows these leaks are not only design flaws, but are in fact foundational, at the very… Read More »Google Researchers Say Spectre Will Haunt Us for Years