[plug] "Hyper-Threading, suffers from a serious security flaw,"

[Bernd Felsche]

"Senectus ." <senectus at gmail.com> writes:
>On 5/14/05, Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham.com.au> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 02:01:28AM +0800, Open Source.Lives wrote:
>> > Colin Percival, a FreeBSD committer and security team member, has
>> > The formentioned paper can be downloaded here in pdf format.

>> Instead I'd be more concerned about this exploit recently released -
>> http://www.isec.pl/vulnerabilities05.html

>Besides, it only really affects multi user systems.. I don't think
>I've ever seen anyone use a HT enabled processor in a server.
>Certainly I've never seen IBM or HP sell one as a solution.

Pardon? IBM sells a heap of different HT machines based on Xeon
CPUs.
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