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Do you have a source for that?

• dijit 7y ago
  GCP was "fully fixed before it was known" according to the engineers I know there. I find it /highly/ unlikely that they don't have patched microcode. I mean, the cloud business is the place with the most to lose from these kinds of issues, I am incredibly suspicious of the claim that cloud providers aren't patching their microcode. Whether it's intels or their own modified variant of microcode I would fully expect them to be patched in some way.
  • caspper69 7y ago
    Google's researchers played a big part in discovering / classifying / mitigating the vulnerabilities. They also developed the retpoline pattern. It is very likely that GCP was "fixed before it was known."
    • rat9988 7y ago
      Indeed, this is why it's unlikely that hey have the patched microcode.
      • dijit 7y ago
        How do you figure that? They have much to lose from not applying these mitigations, especially if they're the people spending a fortune to find them.
        • y4mi 7y ago
          If the grand-parents claim holds, they wouldn't have needed it because they already implemented a workaround themselves. I honestly doubt that claim however and haven't heard it before this thread.