Meltdown and Spectre will kill us all

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 5 January 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

CES is next week, and we'll get to it, but first we need to talk to security expert Russell Brandom to make sure we won't all be dead from CPU security vulnerabilities before then. Also, stay tuned for Paul Miller's excellent and enlightening sci-fi short story allegory for how Meltdown actually works. He did a great job. Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn, the world's foremost experts on what to expect from the world's most important technology tradeshow, make their CES predictions, and Paul does his weekly segment "Mustard, back off!" So wow, what a great episode. Sorry about the sad stuff where computers are fundamentally flawed and nothing is safe. 2:56 - Meltdown and Spectre 42:17 - Paul's weekly segment "Mustard, back off!" 48:14 - CES preview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of the Verge.com.
0:10.6	This is like a very special Vergecast because there's a bomb cyclone in New York City,
0:17.6	a bomb cyclone.
0:19.0	That's the technical term for the snowstorm that's happening.
0:22.2	So all of us are like hunkered down in various snow shelters.
0:27.4	Can I say something that might be controversial?
0:30.2	Yeah.
0:31.2	It just kind of looks like it's snowing outside.
0:34.2	Yeah, bomb cyclone.
0:36.2	Anyway, Paul, you're in the office right now.
0:40.0	Yeah, I made it.
0:41.6	I survived the bomb cyclone.
0:43.8	It's like just you and Lauren.
0:45.6	Yeah.
0:46.6	Yeah, Lauren Grasch's tweeting pictures of her like do it like some Martian-esque survival
0:51.9	tactics in the office.
0:53.5	She's like building forts and biomes.
0:55.9	These definitely growing potatoes here.
0:57.8	By the way, in case you're wondering who these people are who are talking because you
1:02.3	have foolishly chosen this to be the first episode of the Vergecast you've ever listened
1:06.0	to, I'm Neil I Patel.
1:08.8	Paul Miller is in the office.
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