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		dymk on Sept 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenBSD was right to disable hyperthreading [video... You're asking for something impossible. Lock manufacturers can't advertise that their locks are hardened against specific yet-to-be-discovered attacks. Intel can't advertise that their CPUs are hardened against specific yet-to-be-discovered attacks. They can only provide mitigations after the fact.

Forbo on Sept 3, 2019 [–]

Yet they are still advertising the number of threads without any mention of the vulnerabilities involved, well after those vulnerabilities have been disclosed. It's deceptive advertising at best.

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