[Info-vax] Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

[DaveFroble]

Pabst Blue Ribbon wrote:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Den 2018-01-06 kl. 00:01, skrev Pabst Blue Ribbon:
>>
>> [Why quote 100s of lines?]
> 
> My newsreader is not that great with editing.
> 
>>> I wonder if Intel will be sued because of that.
>> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/05/intel_meltdown_cpu_flaw_sued/
>>
>> "Here come the lawyers! Intel slapped with three Meltdown bug lawsuits!"
> 
> Thank you. Just like I expected.

Well, the lawyers will try anything.  Doesn't mean they have a case.  Lots of 
examples.

Make liquor, somebody gets hurt ....

Make guns, somebody gets shot ....

Make cars, somebody gets hurt ....

Quite frankly, I doubt the CPU makers ever imagined such an exploit.  Unless 
some lawyers can come up with a "smoking gun", I'd think Intel et;al would have 
a great defense.  They also could claim that it's the software people who mixed 
user and kernel memory who created the problem.

Nobody knows everything.

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