> It's interesting though why cross-process data exfiltration based on speculative execution was not tried with any success in the shared hosting environment of 1990s and early 2000s.
According to several of the researchers who found Meltdown and/or Spectre, they'd always assumed Intel et. al. were too careful to let this happen, at least at useful data rates. But when they looked for reasons I forget, Katie bar the door!
According to several of the researchers who found Meltdown and/or Spectre, they'd always assumed Intel et. al. were too careful to let this happen, at least at useful data rates. But when they looked for reasons I forget, Katie bar the door!