{"id":17047,"date":"2018-01-13T23:20:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T05:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17047"},"modified":"2018-01-13T23:20:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T05:20:18","slug":"meltdown-and-spectre-clearing-up-the-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17047","title":{"rendered":"Meltdown and Spectre: clearing up the confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For a typical user, the browser presents the highest risk, but we have yet to see proof of concept code that exploits this vulnerability through JavaScript \u2013 and browser vendors have started issuing patches as well (for example, Mozilla has issued a new version of Firefox, 57.0.4, where they have decreased the precision of time sources to make attacks such as Spectre more difficult or impossible). If you run stuff as Administrator: Spectre makes no difference for you really.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In other words: the world will end over the weekend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/isc.sans.edu\/forums\/diary\/23197\/\">Meltdown and Spectre: clearing up the confusion &#8211; SANS Internet Storm Center<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a typical user, the browser presents the highest risk, but we have yet to see proof of concept code that exploits this vulnerability through JavaScript \u2013 and browser vendors have started issuing patches as well (for example, Mozilla has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17047\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[427,1428,698],"class_list":["post-17047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-exploit","tag-meltdown","tag-security-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17048,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17047\/revisions\/17048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}