Thursday, September 17, 2026

How Meltdown and Spectre Were Independently Discovered By Four Research Teams At Once | WIRED

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“"Throughout my career, whenever I've looked somewhere there isn’t a security person looking, I find something nasty and unpleasant there," Kocher says. "The shocker for me is that these attacks weren't discovered long ago. And the question that I struggle with and fear is, how many other things like this have been sitting around for 10 or 15 years?"”

— from How Meltdown and Spectre Were Independently Discovered By Four Research Teams At Once | WIRED as of 17 September 2026