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kirchner
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I think it's just too early to tell for most people. Intel positioned the impact as "workload dependent" and "probably negligible for most users". I read somewhere yesterday that Google deployed patches on many servers and found the impact to be indeed generally negligible. I don't have any more specific data. Due to the nature of the flaw and the changes required, I believe if you have some spare CPU capacity you might not perceive much of a difference. Of course I might be totally wrong 
. The flaws themselves seem to be very hard to exploit so you might be OK postponing the patches for the time being. But it seems to me cybercrimals are never behind in the race so I would definitely plan for patching, and soon.
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. The flaws themselves seem to be very hard to exploit so you might be OK postponing the patches for the time being. But it seems to me cybercrimals are never behind in the race so I would definitely plan for patching, and soon.Continue reading...