Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
&gt; We have some ideas on possible mitigations and provided some of those ideas to the processor vendors; however, we believe that the processor vendors are in a much better position than we are to design and evaluate mitigations, and we expect them to be the source of authoritative guidance.<p>Intel: &quot;Recent reports that these exploits are caused by a “bug” or a “flaw” [..] are incorrect.&quot;<p>So much for &quot;authoritative guidance&quot;, fuck these guys.