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   George Neuner to All   
   Re: Very serious Intel processor flaw fo   
   08 Jan 18 20:59:28   
   
   From: gneuner2@nospicedham.comcast.net   
      
   On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 21:31:13 +0100, "wolfgang kern"    
   wrote:   
      
   >I now already read several posts and links from comp.arch in addition to this   
   >two intruder attempts (Spectre and Meltdown).   
   >   
   >My OS seem to save from such attacks because it wont ever compile Java   
   >into executable code. It may just interprete it, and so easy detect any   
   >attempt to behave outside of limits/rules.   
   >   
   >Please show me how it could affect my SAFE OS variant (interprete only).   
   >   
   >It could gather some info about my OS within the rare Windoze+KESYS variant   
   >but because my code-style is much too far away from C, I heavy daubt that   
   >any non-C programmer/virus/trojan will ever see how my OS work at all.   
   >__   
   >wolfgang   
      
   One of the Spectre exploits was written in Javascript and run in a   
   browser.  Probably it was JIT compiled, but it's not clear that   
   compilation is necessary.   
   https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf   
      
   George   
      
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