There are no root causes At Gold Coast LCA2020 I gave a lightning talk on swiss cheese. Well, maybe not really swiss cheese. But it was about the swiss cheese failure model which was proposed at the university of manchester. Please note this will cover some of the same topics as the talk, but in more detail, and with less jokes. An example problem So we'll discuss the current issues behind modern CPU isolation attacks IE spectre. Spectre is an attack that uses timing of a CPU's speculative ex...
