To be honest, one of the things I was considering when posting the GP was the sheer impossibility of leveling anything more precise than hand-wavy, drunk opinions about the end-to-end security state of that much, well, entropy.

It's gotten almost like a bizarre version of inverted quicksand, where instead of it being bad because you're sinking into sand, it's bad because the sand is shrinking into nothingness from between your fingers.

The next few years are going to be VERY interesting, I think.

IIUC, OOo and branch prediction have kind of been the CPU engineering meal ticket workaround to "solving" the memory latency problem (IIUC), and now everyone apparently has to rethink that.

My favorite would be the "disappearance" of the A20 line though. As in, it's there, it's doing it's thing, but everyone collectively forgot it existed, and now everybody needs a microcode update and an SGX cert respin AGAIN.

And all this without access to specialized tooling (the kind that evolves over a decade, regardless of knowledge), AND the fact that we're (apparently?) only forgetting about (seemingly?) little things at this point. Haha...ha...