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Such comments are common after every "disaster". When Intel chip vulnerabilities due to aggressive caching were announced, the fixes reduced perf for those chip
by putlake 8y ago
Such comments are common after every "disaster". When Intel chip vulnerabilities due to aggressive caching were announced, the fixes reduced perf for those chips, and these same types of comments were made.
It never happens.
- jacobolus 8y agoI can’t see Apple getting seriously nailed, since they probably had no idea this was happening. But beyond shutting the companies responsible for selling these applications down, there should be some criminal liability for the executives. Exfiltrating users’ browser history without reasonable consent is a huge privacy violation. I wonder if it falls under CFAA.
- abakker 8y ago“phantom legal risk” = fear of the unknown, or hope that something that seems bad will actually be punished. Of course “seems bad” often turns out to be more complicated.