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From the Ubuntu wiki, it's clear that someone broke the coordinated release date of January 9th. Does any one have more insights on why the news broke to soon?

• mindcrime 9y ago
  IIRC, the Google Project Zero folks went ahead with the announcement early, because what had already leaked / been speculated, was so close to the truth. Apparently a bunch of smart people were paying attention to a recent set of kernel patches, and starting putting "two and two together" relatively quickly, based on the contents of the patches.
• Ajedi32 9y ago
  From what I recall, patches started showing up in the Linux Kernel, causing lots of buzz and speculation among the security community. People noticed that one patch was only being applied to Intel processors, leading some tech blogs to speculate that only Intel processors were affected by the bug, and that triggered a PR response from Intel. Then someone reverse-engineered an exploit and posted about it on Twitter, and the cat was out of the bag at that point, so they moved up the disclosure timeline.
  • baq 9y ago
    And it's a good thing they did that because a motivated black hat with the correct skill set most likely did, too. Not to mention nation state cyber ops.