Re: Hardened toolchain

[Katherine Cox-Buday]

Aurora <rind38@disroot.org> writes:

> Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Everyone has different threat models and needs. A lot of computers
>> have CPU speculative execution attack mitigation disabled because
>> those types of attacks will never affect those computers, and it
>> reduces the performance of the CPU a lot.
>
> There are multicore processors made in the last decade or two that
> aren't affected by speculative execution vulnerabilities?

They are vulnerable to them, but not necessarily affected by them.
Consider a computer not networked to the internet and only running
trusted workloads (e.g. scientific HPC, etc.). This is why acknowledging that 
everyone has a different threat model is important.

I hope this helps to clarify.

Sincerely,
-- 
Katherine