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Interesting article, the only thing I fail to see how this is related to Meltdown and Spectre. Those are not simple 'bugs', it's multiple good features of modern processors combined to yield an attack vector. My opinion is that with any level of process problems like this will arise sooner or later just because the complexity is so high.

[dchest]

They are caused by performance optimizations with disregard to security (likely not intentional, but caused by not considering security aspects of optimizations carefully).