Spectre Can Obfuscate Tracking Tools, Too, says Larry Loeb. Loeb: Give programmers a massive bug and they figure out a way to make it work for them. Spectre allows the reading of a memory location on a vulnerable CPU without actually referencing or accessing that location. The code uses a global hidden state — which is the memory cache — in order to transfer data from one buffer to another one. The trick is to hide what you are doing from most tracking tools, Loeb says.”]