Spectre

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Spectre is a class of speculative execution CPU vulnerabilities that involve side-channel attacks, first discovered in 2017. There are multiple variants that affect modern microprocessors capable of performing branch prediction and other forms of speculative execution.

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