[Lilug] 10 alarm security fire in all Intel hardware platforms.

[Robert Wilkens]

Wow – Glad I rejoined the list a week or two ago and saw this.  Thank you for sharing.

Sort of would rather I had an AMD chip now 😊, though don’t know that may be affected as well.

If Microsoft is already testing a patch, they must’ve known about this well in advance.

-Rob

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Subject: [Lilug] 10 alarm security fire in all Intel hardware platforms.


Looks like everybody's computer will be getting slower to deal with an
Intel hardware flaw.  VAR and service model companies may eat their
benchmarks here.  Clouds, VM servers, laptops, desktops, servers,
everything.

I would like to point out Linux is discussed the most, not because it's
the most vulnerable but because it's the only scientific collaborative
model.  (the public helps each other in repeatable/reproducible way)
Apple and Microsoft are simply pursuing their best business option
from here and right now that means staying quiet about potentially
useful details until they are satisfied with their fix.

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Patch early, patch often, apologize to users for broken promises, buy a
lot of stuff in a panic.

Matt

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