Massive Design Flaw for Intel Chips past 10 Years!!

[Jon L]

Forcing Windows and Linux kernel redesign, which is expected to cause 5-30% Slowdown for all Intel chips made in last 10 years..  UNfreakingBelievable.

If not fixed at OS software level, huge security risk looms.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/

Edited January 3, 2018 by Jon L

[Pars]

FUCKWIT ehh?

[dcpoor]

How huge will the class action lawsuit be... lol

We'll all probably get $20 or a discount on a new Intel cpu.

Edited January 3, 2018 by dcpoor

[luvdunhill]

Guess what I will be working on this week...

[guzziguy]

Or month? Or year?

[Jon L]

AMD stock way up.  Damn, why didn't I think of buying some..

[Grahame]

Meanwhile El Reg deconstructs Intel's response ... 

(AKA) 

We translated Intel's crap attempt to spin its way out of CPU security bug PR nightmare

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intels_spin_the_registers_annotations/

[Augsburger]

On 1/3/2018 at 10:18 AM, Jon L said:

AMD stock way up.  Damn, why didn't I think of buying some..

Well you still have the short opportunity when the knee jerk reactions settle down.

[Grahame]

More info from El Reg

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_amd_arm_cpu_vulnerability/

See Also 

 

Some very interesting / nasty implications ...

Servers / VM's / Containers may not have the isolation they thought 

(if someone deploys a malicious process to snaffle sensitive in memory data)

or the really nasty one

web page / javascript / exploit to bypass the browser sandbox and see what it can find ...

 

 

[lunaticbastard]

red flag?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/intel-ceos-sale-of-stock-just-before-security-bug-reveal-raises-questions/

[Pars]

No, just financial CYA... based on insider info

[CarlSeibert]

Pretty sweet to see him go to jail for that......

[Augsburger]

He's rich and he is connected,  he will never see the inside of the Big House.