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by blattimwind 3092 days ago
"Which systems are affected?" – "All systems." – "Come again?"
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From the FAQ on spectreattack.com:

> Q: Am I affected by the bug?

> A: Most certainly, yes.

Scary.

If you're using an in order processor, a Nexus 9 tablet say, then you should be safe.
I wasn't thinking straight last night. Basically all in order application processors use speculative execution.
Even a low-power core like a Cortex-M7 can do some speculative execution through its branch predictor.

Though of course a M7 isn't running VMs, and probably isn't running any kind of attacker-controlled code (scripting included - its there, but rare), so many of the vectors aren't present.