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Jon Masters

On The Metal

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Security Vulnerability Challenges and Mitigations in Historical Context

The chapter delves into the challenges of understanding and replicating security vulnerabilities like Meltdown and L1TF, stressing the importance of staying ahead in mitigation efforts. It also explores historical technological incidents like the FPU bug in the Pentium chip, an illegal instruction known as FOOF, and vulnerabilities in early and mid-90s microprocessors, discussing the implications in today's cloud computing environment.

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