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minus-square@fruechtchen@lemmy.mllinkfedilink2•edit-23 years agobtw, the openBSD fix for such things is to disable hyper threading in the kernel. You can do that too in the bios of your computer. See: phoronix article and tomshardware post See also the presentation by Greg Kroah-Hartman
minus-square@ataraxia937@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilink2•3 years agoI was wondering if disabling hyperthreading would be effective against this new threat.
minus-square@fruechtchen@lemmy.mllinkfedilink2•3 years agoi think yes, but am not sure. ask maybe on security.stackexchange.com?
btw, the openBSD fix for such things is to disable hyper threading in the kernel. You can do that too in the bios of your computer.
See: phoronix article and tomshardware post
See also the presentation by Greg Kroah-Hartman
I was wondering if disabling hyperthreading would be effective against this new threat.
i think yes, but am not sure. ask maybe on security.stackexchange.com?