CppCon 2018: “Closing Panel: Spectre”

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This panel will consist of three experts from across the industry who have been working on and responding to Spectre, a new class of information leak vulnerability in modern CPUs and software. It will cover any and all questions the audience has about this new class of vulnerabilities, how they work, what it means for you, and what you can do about them.
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Matt Godbolt, Coinbase
Senior Software Engineer
Matt Godbolt is the creator of the Compiler Explorer website. He is passionate about writing efficient code. He has previously worked at a trading firm, on mobile apps at Google, run his own C++ tools company and spent more than a decade making console games. When he's not hacking on Compiler Explorer, Matt enjoys writing emulators for old 8-bit computer hardware.

Chandler Carruth, Google
Software Engineer
Chandler Carruth leads the Clang team at Google, building better diagnostics, tools, and more. Previously, he worked on several pieces of Google’s distributed build system. He makes guest appearances helping to maintain a few core C++ libraries across Google’s codebase, and is active in the LLVM and Clang open source communities. He received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Wake Forest University, but disavows all knowledge of the contents of his Master’s thesis. He is regularly found drinking Cherry Coke Zero in the daytime and pontificating over a single malt scotch in the evening.

Jon Masters, Red Hat
Computer Architect
Jon Masters is Chief ARM Architect at Red Hat. Masters has been a Linux developer for more than 18 years, since beginning university at the age of 13. He is the author of a number of books on the Linux operating system, including "Building Embedded Linux Systems," and the upcoming "Porting Linux." An accomplished musician and hiker, he also enjoys unicycling among his many other hobbies.

Matt Miller
Microsoft
Matt Miller is a Partner Security Software Engineer working as part of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). In this role, Matt drives strategy and engineering related to proactive vulnerability defense across Microsoft's products and services. Prior to joining Microsoft ten years ago, Matt was a core contributor to the Metasploit framework and an editor for the Uninformed journal.
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[origamibulldoser]

Oh and matt godbolt is an excellent moderator.

[ggabriel]

OMG where can I get a shirt like Godbolt's?