So I am still away on family vacation and following a self-imposed online diet, but even then it has been impossible to ignore the monster sized vulnerabilities disclosed today known as Meltdown and Spectre. And just to make sure nobody misreads my post title, these are bad. Downright ugly. They are pervasive, exploitable and a real longterm fix will likely require new hardware (one or more extra hardware bits in the CPU). So how can I possibly claim they are good? Here are four different way...
