How worried should I be about the Spectre and Meltdown security flaws?

How worried should I be about the Spectre and Meltdown security flaws?

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https://www.recode.net/2018/1/19/16907978/ina-fried-axios-spectre-meltdown-processors-security-flaw-kara-swisher-lauren-goode-podcast

In June 2017, Google researchers discovered major security vulnerabilities in common computer processors, which were disclosed to the public earlier this month. And you should pay attention — because those vulnerabilities affect the computer processors that are in almost everything.

“This is actually a flaw in the way chips have been designed for more than the last decade,” Axios chief technology correspondent Ina Fried said on the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask. “Basically, it is really all chips — the chips in your phones, the chips in your PCs, the chips potentially in other things.”