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> If untrusted code is running on the same core/package/what have you, your security has already been breached.

This used to only be true on x86--IBM and DEC took security seriously and bitched about this incessantly.

Nobody cared. x86 was cheap.

Eventually everybody just threw up their hands and went to superscalar, deeply predicting, out-of-order microprocessor architectures because that got you better benchmarketing

x86 was always insecure. It's just that nobody cared until The Cloud(tm). Malicious client-device Javascript just made it all worse.



Benchmarketing made me smile. Can't be forgotten now...




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