Friday Squid Blogging: “El Pulpo The Squid”

Reflective commentary on hardware security trade-offs, arguing that performance optimizations in CPUs (e.g., speculative execution) have historically led to vulnerabilities and will continue to do so as research and tooling—potentially augmented by AI—improve. It emphasizes risks of unencrypted in-core/cache memory, critiques past industry responses, and forecasts that automated, pattern-based analysis and fuzzing will increasingly surface such design flaws. This is not a specific incident or vulnerability disclosure but a perspective on systemic issues and future trends in vulnerability discovery.