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Meltdown and Spectre Explained  â†¦

If some or most of what you’ve heard or read about Meltdown and Spectre has gone over your head, then you should 💯 read this technical explainer from Matt Klein (also known for being the creator of Envoy).

Matt:

I have not seen a good mid-level introduction to the vulnerabilities and mitigations. In this post I’m going to attempt to correct that by providing a gentle introduction to the hardware and software background required to understand the vulnerabilities, a discussion of the vulnerabilities themselves, as well as a discussion of the current mitigations.

Matt goes on to share graphic charts of CPUs, virtual memory, and code samples to breakdown the exploit.

Meltdown and Spectre Explained

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