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Flash drives are fairly fragile with the risk of losing data. I use flash drives for short-term storage or for porting files.
If you want more robust storage devices, get a couple of external hard drives and treat them nicely. Even external hard drives won’t last forever.
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MrJim: Thanks for the heads up on Linux Lite. I had debated on what package to use.
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If you look at the tables in the second paper, you will see for a Spectre infected computer the number of cache-misses is substantially greater. In other words, Spectre exploits are designed to beat the snot out of a system, until Spectre exploit gets what it wants. As the paper states: “These vulnerabilities are a perfect example of attacks that are essentially invisible to the operating system (as they don’t involve any operating system call), but can be detected when monitoring patterns and events at the CPU level.” (Bold in the sentence is mine.)
My question remains and slightly rephrased: Is there a straight0forward method of determining if Spectre or Meltdown is present? Has someone developed a straight-forward method?
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