In computer engineering grad school, I mentioned to my PI that there was an upcoming hardware security flaw that I had heard about from … sources… and he quickl

In computer engineering grad school, I mentioned to my PI that there was an upcoming hardware security flaw that I had heard about from … sources… and he quickly guessed it was speculative execution related without knowing anything more. I think people knew it was possibly dangerous, but the performance gains from speculative execution were huge enough nobody in Intel/AMD red-teamed the design basically.