Hardware-level Apple Silicon vulnerability can leak cryptographic keys

Short of rearchitecting hardware, the fix will seriously degrade performance

Apple is having its own Meltdown/Spectre moment with a new side-channel vulnerability found in the architecture of Apple Silicon processors that gives malicious apps the ability to extract cryptographic keys. …

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