{"id":225764,"date":"2018-01-23T17:24:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=225764"},"modified":"2018-01-23T17:24:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T09:24:12","slug":"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-re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=225764","title":{"rendered":"Alex Skalozub on Twitter: &#8220;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"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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! \ud83d\ude2a<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; p0fs@infosec.exchange (@pieceofsummer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pieceofsummer\/status\/951359687185793025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225765,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225764\/revisions\/225765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}