Alex Skalozub on Twitter: “Human brain must be affected by Spectre, as it also does speculative reading. Remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted tweet, to cause a sleepy brain to repeatedly read arbitrary bullshit (until it finally gets i

Human brain must be affected by Spectre, as it also does speculative reading. Remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted tweet, to cause a sleepy brain to repeatedly read arbitrary bullshit (until it finally gets it correctly). Causes huge perf loss, no patch! 😪

— [email protected] (@pieceofsummer) January 11, 2018

Human brain must be affected by Spectre, as it also does speculative reading. Remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted tweet, to cause a sleepy brain to repeatedly read arbitrary bullshit (until it finally gets it correctly). Causes huge perf loss, no patch!