It seems the Spectre and Meltdown gong show just got real. The leaders of Amazon, AMD, Apple, ARM, Google, Intel and Microsoft have been asked via a letters to answer questions about the two CPU bugs by Republican members of the US House of Representatives.
Specifically, the politicians want to know about a secrecy agreement that was put in place by these same companies. In short the agreement demanded silence from June 2017 which is when researchers recognized the seriousness of the processor design flaws, through the planned date of coordinated disclosure on Tuesday, January 9, 2018. Except that The Register found out about the flaws and dropped the details on an unsuspecting world a week before the deal expired, which caused these companies to scramble to get fixes out.
You have to suspect that this is the first step in the eventual public flogging known as a Congressional Hearing. Given that this is an election year, that won’t end well for any of these companies. But we’ll see if congress decides to go there.
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Amazon, AMD, Apple, ARM, Google, Intel & Microsoft Are Asked To Answer Spectre And Meltdown Questions
It seems the Spectre and Meltdown gong show just got real. The leaders of Amazon, AMD, Apple, ARM, Google, Intel and Microsoft have been asked via a letters to answer questions about the two CPU bugs by Republican members of the US House of Representatives.
Specifically, the politicians want to know about a secrecy agreement that was put in place by these same companies. In short the agreement demanded silence from June 2017 which is when researchers recognized the seriousness of the processor design flaws, through the planned date of coordinated disclosure on Tuesday, January 9, 2018. Except that The Register found out about the flaws and dropped the details on an unsuspecting world a week before the deal expired, which caused these companies to scramble to get fixes out.
You have to suspect that this is the first step in the eventual public flogging known as a Congressional Hearing. Given that this is an election year, that won’t end well for any of these companies. But we’ll see if congress decides to go there.
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