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by mhh__ 1971 days ago
Having a name for a big CVE is actually quite a good idea because it's much easier to string a narrative together around it to convince people to take it seriously.

Spectre is better than something like "Novel data exfiltration from branch prediction using a cache side-channel, variant 3" or similar.

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Haha totally agree. Much like vaccine nomenclature.