From: harryne_wton@AlliOSusersJustGiveUp.com   
      
   On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 01:56:13 -0500, Winston wrote:   
      
   > These vulnerabilities only allow reading by unprivileged processes of   
   > what should be protected (and unreadable) kernel memory, which, in   
   > theory, might contain privileged information.  However, the attacks require   
   > the attacker to run code on the machine in question.   
      
   Great description here:   
   https://meltdownattack.com/   
      
   Paraphrased:   
      
   Meltdown melts security down between program and hardware.   
   Spectre speculative execution tricks program access to app memory.   
      
   Lots of detail, papers, links for every operating system, etc.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)