Meltdown researcher Anders Fogh explains how multiple researchers discovered the same vulnerabilities in modern CPUs at around the same time
Introduction — In this blog post I'll speculate as to how we ended up with multiple researchers arriving at the same vulnerabilities in modern CPU's concurrently. Tweets: @roundtrip Tweets: Greg Lloyd / @roundtrip : “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://twitter.com/... Expand More For Next Unexpand More For Next