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Intel Hyper-Threading Possible Security Hole

By Joel, 1:11 PM on Mon May 23 2005, 27 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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The title says it all, but don't throw out your gaming rig quite yet. This security hole affects mostly machines doing multi-user operations (think 'webservers' doing secure transactions) and is, according to ~~Linux~~Linus ~~Torvolds~~Torvalds, not "all that worrying in real life." [Sorry, Joel uses BeOS and is does not speak Finnish]

Intel Hyper-Threading A Security Hole [GigaOm]

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