OT: Security threat from side channel attacks, linux vulnerable?

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/02/2012 09:29 AM, stan wrote:
> I interpreted that as meaning the defense against the attack was 10 to
> 20 years out there.  The attack has already been demonstrated, from the
> sound of the article (I did go read the first link, which described
> attacks targeting cloud servers at least somewhat successfully).  
>
> Like you, I'm not going to be contributing to this effort.  But if
> Fedora is already immune, it is one less thing to worry about.

If, as you say, "the defense against the attack was 10 to 20 years out there" then by
Boolean logic  Fedora *cannot* be "already immune".

I think you should continue to worry.   :-) :-)

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