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228: The Spectre of Meltdown

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We review the information about Spectre & Meltdown thus far, we look at NetBSD memory sanitizer progress, Postgres on ZFS & show you a bit about NomadBSD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Meltdown Spectre Official Site (https://meltdownattack.com/) Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/) Intel’s official response (https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/) The Register mocks intels response with pithy annotations (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_meltdown_spectre_bugs_the_registers_annotations/) Intel’s Analysis PDF (https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/01/Intel-Analysis-of-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channels.pdf) XKCD (https://xkcd.com/1938/) Response from FreeBSD (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2018-January/009719.html) FreeBSD's patch WIP (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13797) Why Raspberry Pi isn