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Hacking out these chips and Researching out new ways to make more effective computer chips and reserving information is a big challenge!!!

Not only Intel but also AMD chips are effect with this, it reaches PC's Macs and Linux systems

Thanks for sharing this! The sad part is the big giants... Intel, AMD etc have not reacted to it. No update on their website nor they have sent any updates to the users.

@heiditravels ,Thanks, helpful information

Thanks for the security information. Great job!

Good

Thank you for the break down. Even a password manager can be compromised with this. At this rate you can never really feel secure about your data. Even if you memorize everything you can be tracked typing it in. Scary.

Or it is an evil trick to sell new CPU's like Apple's batterie slow down. ;)

There is an interesting post on [Linux Weekly News](https://lwn.net/Articles/743383/) quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman (who is responsible for the Linux kernel stable releases) suggesting Meltdown and Spectre are comparatively small worries compared to others :

> "If you rely on any other kernel tree other than 4.4, 4.9, or 4.14 right now, and you do not have a distribution supporting you, you are out of luck. The lack of patches to resolve the Meltdown problem is so minor compared to the **hundreds of other known exploits and bugs** that your kernel version currently contains. You need to worry about that more than anything else at this moment, and get your systems up to date first. Also, go yell at the people who forced you to run an obsoleted and insecure kernel version, they are the ones that need to learn that doing so is a totally reckless act."

His full blog post is [here](http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/01/06/meltdown-status/) which makes for a reassuring read for those keeping their Linux systems up to date.

Thanks for the warning.  I like the glasses, BTW.

After Apple, Intel too joins the bandwagon. And while at it, takes it altogether to a different and a higher level. SMH!!!

Thank you for the update! The problem i have is that one of the exploits is not patchable. Does that mean that my CPU might be useless in the near future since it will let my PC be infected by malware way more easily?

Thanks again for this alert, Heidi.  I've been patching, patching, patching!  

As you know, several groups are working on blockchain phones, os's, tablets, and pc's - perhaps these will be less vulnerable to these kinds of things!

It's really a great update thanks for sharing this update and really glad to see this

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Wow - That sucks.

I you want a password manager you can 100% trust (open source and can be installed on your own server) have a look at passman https://passman.cc/

Thanks for writing about this, Heidi. Holy shit! Resteemed and shared on my other social channels to spread the word.

We are ready

Hi guys here is my post for you 
 https ://steemit.com/crypto/@khalidjr11/guide-how-to-secure-your-gadgets-against-specter-and-meltdown  in this post I try to explain how to secure your PC against these attacks...

thankU

this a good security good post @heiditravels

What the f*****k. Been offline all day making sausages. It basically means my old Apple laptop can now take centre stage as an ornament because upgrading the OS will kill it and connecting it to the internet will open it up to the less honest among us. You kind of hope 'The Register' are top of the hacking hit list for being some damn doff!

You can promote me as a new Steemitier by posting on my blog @heiditravels I so much appreciate thanks.

Thanks for the heads up Heidi.

Happy to be an AMD investor right now!!

God! Thanks for the information @heiditravels, since it is very useful for all of us who are in this world of the internet, greetings from venezuela. I invite you to visit my blog @ropavejero and share there

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Thanks for the important information!!!

You make it sound like an oversight!

I'm sure companies like Microsoft and Google put a lot of work into designing backdoors like that.

And they don't announce them until they have replaced them with far better ones.

The best way to get the new ones up and running is provide "updates" which like vaccinations (another of Bill Gates evil plans) are designed to really get in and mess your shit up...

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Got your back playa thanks for the update!

I am following you since months ago.
I see you are going from strength to strength.
I am sorry for not taking the time to look at your blog, since I see all your last threads, and possibly those before them as well are must reads.
What brought me now, is the memory of your decentralized exchanges thread, which I wanted to check again.