Fascinating story about simultaneous independent discovery, and why it's more common than you think. Important application to the NSA, whose practice of keeping vulnerabilities secret is bad for computer security. http://www-wired-com.cdn.ampproject.org / ...
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Mike Godwin on x
“If you asked me whether intelligence agencies found this years ago, I would guess certainly yes.” http://www.wired.com/...
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Nicholas Thompson on x
So good. The inside story of how four teams found the same crazy 20-year-old Meltdown and Spectre bugs at roughly the same time. http://www.wired.com/...
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Greg Lloyd on x
“CPU research is much like drawing a map of an uncharted world. Researchers start from known research and proceed into the unknown, and if they find something they document it and add it to the map. This essentially means that the frontier looks very similar to everybody...” http…