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Reading between the lines, it seems this is a pretty colossal fuckup by Intel; both in terms of the bug but especially how it was handled.
by davidw 9y ago
Reading between the lines, it seems this is a pretty colossal fuckup by Intel; both in terms of the bug but especially how it was handled.
- JdeBP 9y agoYou do not need to read in between the lines to learn that; several commentators have come right out and said it. * http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2018-January/313758.html http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2018-January/3... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16084641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16084641) * https://medium.com/@frankycaron/this-week-in-words-the-language-of-meltdown-and-spectre-126bf109e5c5 https://medium.com/@frankycaron/this-week-in-words-the-langu... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16075588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16075588) * http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_meltdown_spectre_bugs_the_registers_annotations/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_meltdown_spect... One of them you might have expected to use the word "fuck", but actually did not. (-: * https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/3/797 https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/3/797 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16066968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16066968) In part, this was down to the cat being let out of the bag early. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16080918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16080918 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16068510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16068510
- arianvanp 9y agoIf those 4 extra days of embargo would not have caused a total PR disasters on Intel's side will eat my socks. This wouldn't have become any better given another week of time.
- fragmede 9y agoThe fact that Intel is rumored to have know about this since June lends credence to your belief, however if that week would have let OS vendors have updates ready, and cloud providers already patched, then it would be less of a disaster. There's a certain amount of flailing about when details are released earlier than expected, and vendors don't have a answers or instructions prepared.
- erikb 9y agoReading between the lines would be figuring out who at or around Intel profits from this chaos. There is certainly someone, but since everybody is just focussed on the technical issues, whoever it is will probably throw a party this weekend.
- JdeBP 9y agoNo, one does not need to read in between the lines for that, either. One can simply read the lines. Far from everyone being "just focussed on the technical issues", the questions over the share dealings have made the news in the papers, from The Australian to The Irish Times.
- erikb 9y agoInsider trading happens all the time. But usually you don't read about it in the news. So that the Intel CEO's insider trading got him in trouble shows there's someone fighting against him. Thus, no that's not the full story. I know it's hard to accept but the official scape goat is rarely the trouble maker. Or do you believe that the 2008 crisis was just the doing of that one banker that got jailed?
- pas 9y agoThe 2008 crisis was an emergent systemic risk. (Similar to Spectre) But Meltdown is Intel's fuckup, and the insider trading is on Krzanich. And naturally anyone is happy to point that out, even if they sort of fucked up by implementing speculative execution and thus allowed Spectre on their platform. Or it can be simply someone that noticed this unusual sale, and saw the circumstances ripe for a bit of naked shorting.
- erikb 9y agoRight. Shorting is also an option. Haven't thought about it. It would also be insider trading, though, and it's not in the news that someone shorted Intel stock big time.