RE: Meltdown and spectre

I know they updated their yum channels. We have not witnessed scheduled reboots. We are, however, updating and rebooting as per our internal plans.

From: Mark J. Bobak
Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 1:47 PM
To: fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Meltdown and spectre

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.

On 2018-01-08 10:04 AM, Reen, Elizabeth wrote:             Yes, but what are the odds?  
Liz
 
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From: Hans Forbrich [mailto:fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2018 12:04 PM
To: Reen, Elizabeth [ICG-IT]; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: Meltdown and spectre
 
One might be enough.

On 2018-01-08 9:54 AM, Reen, Elizabeth wrote:             True, but I have to wonder how many passwords you can get this way.   

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