I've read them both before Jerry. Glad Distrowatch has made the info easy to access. Spectre is a threat to high end propietary security meaures like AV and anti-malware deployments that use CPU sandboxing, and is also able to produce DOS exploits via bit flipping exploits akin to the rowhammer concept. Every existing CPU protection/monitoring gadget is open to exploit this way. It is the ultimate back door. I am avoiding being technical until I'm ready with my own conclusions.

TC