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

[mike]

On 1/5/2018 8:06 PM, DaveFroble wrote:
> 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.
>
And almost nobody here can effect a solution inside the CPU.
It's all just bitching about it.
I'd be very disappointed if Intel were successfully sued over someone
discovering a way to infiltrate their microcode.
Might as well sue Kwikset because someone figgered out how to pick the
40 year old lock on your front door and steal your stuff.
Shit happens, get over it and move on.