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By JT Pennington

228: The Spectre of Meltdown

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Published January 10, 2018 7:00am

We review the information about Spectre & Meltdown thus far, we look at NetBSD memory sanitizer progress, Postgres on ZFS & show you a bit about NomadBSD.This episode was brought to you by

HeadlinesMeltdown SpectreOfficial SiteKernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesignIntel’s official responseThe Register mocks intels response with pithy annotationsIntel’s Analysis PDFXKCDResponse from FreeBSDFreeBSD's patch WIPWhy Raspberry Pi isn’t vulnerable to Spectre or MeltdownXen mitigation patchesOverview of affected FreeBSD Platforms/ArchitecturesGroff's response##### We’ll...

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