Eben gives you a crash course in how modern processors work to explain why Raspberry Pi is unaffected by the Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities.

2 points•birdculture•about 4 hours ago•1 comment•

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torutofuabout 3 hours ago
The interesting bit is that Pi avoids these attacks mostly by not doing speculation in the first place, rather than by adding some special Spectre mitigation.

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