Spectre is a great example of what effect public perception has on software development. After it's disclosure the industry absolutely scrambled to patch it bec

Spectre is a great example of what effect public perception has on software development. After it's disclosure the industry absolutely scrambled to patch it because mainstream news outlets declared the sky was falling. A year in, and we have hundreds of thousands of slightly older computers with a 20% performance drop and even modern machines with a 5-10% performance drop to address a purely hypothetical threat. Compare this to the various Intel Management Engine exploits from the past couple years which received no media attention and thus no industry attention.