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Running on Intel? If you want security, disable hyper-threading, says Linux kernel maintainer
2019-10-29 15:17

Speculative execution bugs will be with us for a very long time Linux kernel dev Greg Kroah-Hartman reckons Intel Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) - also known as hyper-threading - should be disabled for security due to MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling) bugs.…


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