Chapter 8.2, Problem 1.1CQ

Explanation of Solution

Spectre and Meltdown being dangerous:

• Spectre and Meltdown are hardware related flaws and thereby differs from the usual malware that affects the software.
• Meltdown has been identified to affect Intel chips manufactured in the last 20 years. This utilises the inbuilt ability of chips that help it to run processes faster.
• In 2017, it was found that this feature was instead utilised as a security flaw by attackers to gain access to data of user. They utilise it to “melt” the security boundaries that are usually entrusted to the computer hardware...