a bit more on Spectre and Meltdown

American Megatrends Statement in Response to “Meltdown” and “Spectre” Security Vulnerabilities: https://t.co/dIFTJoN4Ms pic.twitter.com/iVO7FJ0MTI

— AMI (@AMI_PR) January 12, 2018

**IMPORTANT** – Intel just notified VMware of faulty microcode updates for certain Haswell/Broadwell CPUs.

Please see https://t.co/Wgl5Sjghto for affected systems & “tmp” workaround for those who’ve applied microcode update until new updates are available from Intel

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— William Lam (@lamw.bsky.social | @lamw@vmst.io) (@lamw) January 13, 2018

F*ck, I can barely believe that I was able to read non-cached data from other process efficiently. Removed iteration and issued flush on secret. Thanks @misc0110, @aionescu for all the tips. Not releasing it or somebody could definitely set the world on fire with this! #meltdown pic.twitter.com/eHYaxnbEAo

— Raph Carvalho (@raphael_scarv) January 13, 2018

Still ticked off that FreeBSD wasn't given earlier notice. In fact much later than Linux patches were already visible to the public. FreeBSD is a major OS, especially if you count appliances. They have a proper security officer just like the other players.

— Martin Cracauer (@MartinCracauer) January 11, 2018