Spectre refers to a whole family of potential weaknesses of which Meltdown is just one. Dr Steve Bagley talks about CPU hardware design flaws on an unprecedented scale.

Papers on both Spectre and Meltdown can be found here: http://bit.ly/C_Spec_Melt

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