RE:RE:RE:Meltdown and SpectreNot so much Specter which is kernel based but Meltdown is architectural. They have patches for it but it degrades performance. They are re-benchmarking CPUs with both patches running but performance takes a hit by ~30% sometimes 400% with some processes. Will see what happens. You can put a patch over architectural but the flaw will always exist. Looks like Intel et al. knew about this for some time by sacrificed security for performance. So now you have this flaw with lots of CPUs. Some people (military) might want CPUs with security from meltdown built into the architecture. So now you have to revisit the design with a new line of CPUs. So your gonna havta start sawin some boules...