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

[Ron C]

On 1/6/2018 8:02 PM, nospam wrote:
> In article <fbd96uF1fg9U1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> ...and you believe cars will reach a higher standard?
>>>>>
>>>>> absolutely.
>>>>>
>>>>> all they need to do is be better than humans, which as i said, is not
>>>>> that tough.
>>>>
>>>> And yet we have this [many decades old] memory leak security hole.
>>>
>>> that would not cause an autonomous vehicle to crash.
>>
>> Well, we don't know that yet.  :-)  Maybe it can make the
>> autonomous car mistake a tractor-trailier for a billboard.
> 
> yes we do. meltdown/spectre won't have any effect on the algorithms
> used in autonomous vehicles.
> 
> nothing is perfect so there will still be collisions, but far fewer
> than with human drivers.
> 
> human drivers make all sorts of mistakes, some incredibly stupid.
> 
however, human drivers can't be hacked by malevolent actors
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