Security alert - "Meltdown" and "Spectre"

[Dartz]

Apparently it's AMD's turn. Although, instead of having months to work on a solution and arrange a quick sell off of corporate shares there's only been 24 hours notice in this case.

Things are a bit light on the technical description and eyebrows are being raised at the lab itself.

It seems like a sort of perfectly normal level of insecurity that you'd expect in such hideously complex systems - insecurity and untrustworthiness is the normal state of affairs. The more complex a thing is, the more likely there'll be holes in it somewhere. This is, after all, the reason why Europe is laughing at the idea of a hard border in NI - it's got more holes and crossings than any other EU border.


Also. Why the fuck does every security vulnerability have to have a fucking brand these days? Is it some idiotic way of drawing attention to the brander.