Episode 351: Performance Meltdown

The types of workloads that will see the largest performance impacts from Meltdown, tools to test yourself, and the outlook for 2018. Plus a concise breakdown of Meltdown, Spectre, and side-channel attacks like only TechSNAP can. Then we run through the timeline of events, and the scuttlebutt of so called coordinated disclosure. We also discuss yet another security issue in macOS High Sierra, a backdoor in popular storage appliances, your questions, and more!