> [0] In fairness, the reason we are in this mesz is that said CPU manufacturer has been releasing broken products in the name of speed themselves. As bad as I

> [0] In fairness, the reason we are in this mesz is that said CPU manufacturer has been releasing broken products in the name of speed themselves. As bad as Intel's record there was, it's hard to really single it out either. It certainly seems as if the whole industry—CPU manufacturers, integrators, academics, kernel devs, the lot—simply agreed not to notice that this category of vulnerability existed until the moment it was fully impossible to ignore.