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Cloudflare never, ever misses an opportunity to loudly advertise what they are doing.
by Blackthorn 3y ago
Cloudflare never, ever misses an opportunity to loudly advertise what they are doing.
- kd913 3y agoSure but they didn’t do anything here but apply a microcode patch… Heck they are taking attention away from the original authors and what shining a spotlight at their hardware partner’s flaw?
- nannal 3y agoBecause this is an advert and they want to show people that they are aware & are doing something about it
- Blackthorn 3y agoYeah, they do that. Just look at their pages when a website using them goes down. Cloudflare never misses an opportunity to advertise themselves.
- progmetaldev 3y agoAs someone who has dealt with a lot of upper management, I can say that they love articles like this coming from one of their infrastructure providers. It gives them a feel-good feeling, and probably avoids unnecessary emails to their support staff on whether they've done anything to mitigate the risk.
- JamesLeonis 3y agoOn a smaller scale, these "I'm looking at it" emails are also good for internal problems (accidental downtime, discovered bug, etc) for the exact same reason.
- stefan_ 3y agoThe real genius was OpenBSD adding microcode updates they should have had for 10 years, and on top we get a smug Theo email about how it's really not even very much affected except when using AVX (duh).