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I'm surprised by the lack of media coverage: Intel is deliberately leaving billions of CPUs vulnerable. For a $200 billion company, refusing to spend some ress
by arnaudsm 8y ago
I'm surprised by the lack of media coverage: Intel is deliberately leaving billions of CPUs vulnerable.
For a $200 billion company, refusing to spend some ressources to patch all generations is irresponsible.
Think of how many governments still use <2012 CPUs.
- sametmax 8y agoAnother theory is that other actors have the will and influence to make sure it stays that way. We used to be answer with tin foil hat jokes about jokes on mass surveillance. Then came PRISM and nobody is laughing now. Maybe it's going to be the same with this. We will learn many years later it was enforced by some state or economical entity that benefit greatly to have a standard unpatchable backdoor on most laptop and servers on the planet.
- RaleyField 8y agoThe greed and irresponsibility is boundless. They could set aside 10 billion and have excellent security. 1 billion could have bought thousand phds digging through their processors and I bet they could dig out boneheaded flaws like Spectre. Out of band management is fine, but have it completely disabled by default, have it run on co-processor optimized for security, not speed, in language optimized for security, not speed and when it's on have it filter all packets that aren't signed to unique secret key. Basic stuff.