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Hyper threaded model is harmful

A paper will be presented in Canada that would reveal a serious flaw in Hyper-Threaded Model. Paper can be found here. According to the author

"Hyper-Threading, as currently implemented on Intel Pentium Extreme Edition, Pentium 4, Mobile Pentium 4, and Xeon processors, suffers from a serious security flaw. This flaw permits local information disclosure, including allowing an unprivileged user to steal an RSA private key being used on the same machine. Administrators of multi-user systems are strongly advised to take action to disable Hyper-Threading immediately; single-user systems (i.e., desktop computers) are not affected."

Published Monday, May 16, 2005 2:47 AM by fakeGeek

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# Debuggin multithreaded application in C# @ Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:58 AM

if you have ever debugged a multi threaded application ,you could face an exception with message Thread...

Adnan Siddiqi

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