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

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 1 May 2012, stan wrote:

> On Wed, 02 May 2012 09:36:25 +0800
> Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.   :-) :-)
>> 
>
> Thanks.  :-)  I'll put this on the list right above the worry that an
> asteroid will hit the earth.  And just under the fact that we are
> overdue for an ice age.  ;-)  What if Fedora has natural immunity? I was

Does that mean that you will worry about it
before worrying about dying of lightning?

> wondering, if like so many other computer things, this was principally
> a Windows problem, because of Window's design.  The theoretical method

Wence that conclusion?

> described in the article is just one way of defending against it.
> Apparently, Intel modified their hardware in part to increase the
> difficulty of this kind of attack.

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