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That's correct -- we at Joyent had no advanced disclosure. That we have our own operating system (SmartOS) that also serves as the hypervisor in our own public
by bcantrill 9y ago
That's correct -- we at Joyent had no advanced disclosure. That we have our own operating system (SmartOS) that also serves as the hypervisor in our own public cloud (and that Intel knew and knows all of this) really did/does leave us in a uniquely terrible position. While we have made excellent progress on KIPT for SmartOS/illumos, it is also true that this is very delicate work in the core of the system; that we are forced to do this while vulnerable belies any notion that this was responsible disclosure.
- kbenson 9y agoAh, that's unfortunate. From a little research, the wording from Linode's announcement makes it sounds like they didn't get advance warning, but the wording from Digital Ocean's announcement sounds like they had a few days. I'm not sure how it all worked out, but I agree you guys are a specific case where at least little advance warning would have helped quite a bit, since you can't piggyback on the community nearly as much. Linux providers can at worst just wait for kernel patches and then roll them into production.