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    January 06, 2018, 11:55:45 PM
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    yeah pretty nasty. ms has a patch out for meltdown but it can slow your machine down. wonderful.

    but trezor or ledger nano s for the win.

    or fire up that old pentium 2 or 3 Grin although i think the jury is still out on whether those are immune.

    or maybe olde skoole: S-100 or CP/M anyone?

    Not sure I believe Intel after they laid off over 14000 employees last year.  I bet they are just looking for a jump in their stock.  We will see I guess.
    .. btw.. how can a processor hold passwords?.. is there ram in there?

    meltdown can allow other programs on the machine (even in other VMs) to read the processor cache (fast ram built into the cpu for fast access to data/instructions it thinks it will need next compared to going out to main memory). its possible (guessing here) that network share passwords and credentials may be there on occasion. if you have those, your network is compromised. although other malware would have to work in concert with it to do that. at least as far as i understand it.

    keep in mind im no expert, but i do take my rigs and network seriously. this treat seems more serious for cloud computing then home users but hey additional security is additional security. every little bit helps.

    Do you guys run any kind of malwarebytes, or Norton, windows defender security?
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