Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 19:58:21 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Meltdown =?UTF-8?B?4oCT?= Spectre Message-ID: <20180108195821.0195794b.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20180108085756.GA3001@c720-r314251> References: <f9cc484e-be92-7aff-52fe-38655e85dbaa@columbus.rr.com> <CAH78cDqPnOUGoU=6x-BiugnpjmjYcd=CZS3fSNaX5tq-Uvma7g@mail.gmail.com> <bc9ad15b-a718-b901-76fa-bc43ce0c1f1a@columbus.rr.com> <3AECDC7F-8838-4C09-AC7F-117DFBAA326C@sigsegv.be> <20180108085756.GA3001@c720-r314251>
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On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 09:57:56 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día lunes, enero 08, 2018 a las 09:22:34a. m. +0100, Kristof Provost escribió: > > > They have been aware of the problem for 6+ months. FreeBSD was notified > > in late December. It’s being worked on, but these are non-trivial > > changes, so it’ll take some time. > > As I side note, and not related to FreeBSD: My Internet server is run by > some webhosting company (www.1blu.de), they use Ubuntu servers and since > yesterday they have shutdown SSH access to the servers argumenting that they want > protect my (all's) servers against attacks of Meltdown and Spectre. > > Imagine, next time we have to shutdown all IOT gadgets... Additionally, prepare for your bills to increase. The current mitigation concepts, as far as I understand, result in a lower performance (about 20 %) of the patched (!) systems. So when you heavily rely on cloud infrastructures, and you have the magical "[x] upgrade my plan if justified by increased load" enabled, well... When things start costing money, you know who'll always pay... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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