Re: Meltdown and spectre

From: Mark J. Bobak <mark_at_bobak.net>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:45:28 +0000
Message-ID: <CAFQ5AC+X-fRYLOpSBm_eufe=RYWkLkt-+fwjkZZTA3_jcR7+Ew_at_mail.gmail.com>



We are a big AWS shop. Late December, I get notifications that a whole slew of our instances are going to be rebooted between Jan 2nd and 9rh......wonder if that was AWS rolling out the patches?

-Mark

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018, 13:41 Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> The probability of winning the lottery is 100% - after you have won.
> Prior to that, it's just hedging bets.
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> On 2018-01-08 10:04 AM, Reen, Elizabeth wrote:
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> Yes, but what are the odds?
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> Elizabeth Reen
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> *From:* Hans Forbrich [mailto:fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com
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> *Sent:* Monday, January 08, 2018 12:04 PM
> *To:* Reen, Elizabeth [ICG-IT]; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* Re: Meltdown and spectre
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> One might be enough.
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> On 2018-01-08 9:54 AM, Reen, Elizabeth wrote:
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> True, but I have to wonder how many passwords you can get this
> way.
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