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One drawback to giving branding to these otherwise complex and obscure vulnerabilities. It wouldn’t be so effective to say “Intel has detected your computer is
by gnu8 9y ago
One drawback to giving branding to these otherwise complex and obscure vulnerabilities. It wouldn’t be so effective to say “Intel has detected your computer is vulnerable to a cache side channel attack. Click here to install the fix.”
- DarronWyke 9y agoAs I sardonically stated on Twitter, it's not a real vulnerability until it has a catchy name and logo. It's the newest node.js hipster pentesting tech.
- simlevesque 9y agoIt's as useless as bashing node.js in an unrelated conversation.
- deadmetheny 9y agoCareful, you'll get downvoted for suggesting that marketing security vulns is a stupid idea on HN.
- saagarjha 9y agoThe flip side being that people are more likely to update if their computer sounds like it's going to "melt down" than if it's vulnerable to a "cache side channel attack".