Side channel gives unauthenticated remote attackers access they should never have.
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Both side channels are the result of the chips’ use of speculative execution, a performance optimization that improves speed by predicting the control flow the CPUs should take and following that path, rather than the instruction order in the program.
Hasn’t this been a problem in other CPUs too? IIRC that’s how Spectre works too.
