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Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (arstechnica.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The attack has been dubbed GoFetch: https://gofetch.fail/

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The second comment on the page sums up what I was going to point out:

I'd be careful making assumptions like this ; the same was true of exploits like Spectre until people managed to get it efficiently running in Javascript in a browser (which did not take very long after the spectre paper was released). Don't assume that because the initial PoC is time consuming and requires a bunch of access that it won't be refined into something much less demanding in short order.

Let's not panic, but let's not get complacent, either.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

That's the sentiment I was going for.

There's reason to care about this but it's not presently a big deal.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean, unpatchable vulnerability. Complacent, uncomplacent, I'm not real sure they look different.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Can't fix the vulnerability, but can mitigate by preventing other code from exploiting the vulnerability in a useful way.