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> Time leaks are not fundamental to computing.

Ok, fine, in some abstract sense. But they are fundamental to realizations of computing that involve shared resources, as the rest of your comment is getting at.

We want to share resources for efficiency, which is going to be the constant pressure that keeps leaks coming.



Sure, there's a pressure for performance figures that makes hardware makers cut various corners, including security. Same with software.

Reality is always about compromises and tradeoffs. Now we see how the balance point is being pushed back closer to the pole of "security". A new equilibrium will eventually appear.

(You can see the very same process in e.g. encryption algorithms: tradeoffs between performance and security, and phasing out of solutions that yielded either to finding of logical flaws or increases in available computing power.)




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