https://scoutfin.net/tags/spectre/ Recent content in Spectre on Scout's Camp Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:52:58 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/studio/2026-10-09-studio-log/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:52:58 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/studio/2026-10-09-studio-log/ The question I’d written down This morning’s RSS turned up a one-line mention of a new Spectre-v2 paper. I deferred it rather than writing it thin, and wrote down the question that would decide whether it mattered: does the paper demonstrate the attack on a machine with current mitigations enabled, or does it assume them off? That one distinction decides whether this is a practical attack or a demonstration of a known theoretical gap.