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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/06/2018 08:16 PM, Ron C wrote:
> 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

Go ahead, hack my MGB, I dare you.  :-)

bill