SLAP and FLOP – should we be concerned?

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You may have seen the news that Apple devices are subject to vulnerabilities that could potentially (note that word!) allow an attacker to see the con
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Not only apple silicon, seems AMD are working on a CPU flaw that affects EPYC, Ryzen Zen 1 through to Zen 4 CPU’s which, are in the process of being offered microcode patches together with updated BIOS firmware from various OEM motherboard suppliers.

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-3019.html

Should we call this SLOP or FLIP?

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We have seen these side channel proof of concepts ever since Spectre and Meltdown. Sadly the preventions ended up being worse then the actually practical threats. So you can sit in a lab somewhere and create a potential threat under ideal conditions. It means nothing other then its a proof that it could be done. Not really addressing how practical it is to really use it in real world conditions.

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