[DISCUSSION] Meltdown and Spectre

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by scaramonga, Jan 3, 2018.

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    The 2 videos that were posted earlier are for the MDS series of vulnerabilities, from May 2019. There has not been a single one attack based on them in almost a year.
    Not only that, but there has not been any attacks based on the initial wave of Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities either, in 2 years now.
    My guess is that there are far more convenient paths to compromising your info. This CPU vulnerabilities stuff is way overblown, for now. It's just easier to get you hacked with trojans and rootkits.
     
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    You are right. I am speaking on the generality of poor safety all rather high vulnerability. That is on the reason I am cautious on the information I put out there.
     
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    yes. the cloud is the invention of the devil. whatever is beyond your hd, is beyond your control.:)
     
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    #447 -=ismail=-, Jan 28, 2020
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    Download the mentioned InSpectre tool, start as Admin, and you can disable the mitigations.

    Note that unless you modify installation sources, you can only disable re-actively, not proactively.
     
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    Thanks for the tip! Any advice how to modify installation sources safely for that.
    ( I mean to say that I know the things but a hint as to what exactly has to be removed & how )

    Thanks in advance!
     
  11. vineet brother i hope you know me . you can disable spectre or metdown from within the inspectre tool but its not persistent as you have to always do it after every reboot.
     
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    Hi Bro,
    It seems a permanent registry edit, isn't it ?

    @Disk2019 , @Carlos Detweiller , @ALL : What's the truth ?

    Thanks in advance!
     
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