Bugs happen. What is likely is that security agencies with their larger staffs and budgets do discover many of them before the private sector. It's certainly p

Bugs happen. What is likely is that security agencies with their larger staffs and budgets do discover many of them before the private sector. It's certainly plausible that the NSA knew about this new class of attacks before we did. BTW -- forget about CPUs. My biggest concern is with the chips that get less security attention: GPUs, network chips, USB controllers, etc. Those are likely just as bug-ridden or more.