Understanding The Meltdown And Spectre Exploits: Intel, AMD, ARM, And Nvidia

[trashpandacoder]

I do not want to play the "devil's advocate" but, if he knew about the fault since last June he wouldn't sell on purpose for the case he would be accused for "abandoning ship" before it sinks. After all he is CEO from since May 2013. The flaws are rumored to be on most intel's chips many years before.

that would be the legal argument of any prosecutor that would bring charges against him for perhaps insider trading and fraud to name a few. But Intel is a large important company and taking down any of the people that run large important companies is difficult politically because of the widespread economic impacts. so he'll very likely get away with it.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Tell that to Arthur Andersen/Enron or WorldCom. There is no such thing as too big to fall. It might not happen OFTEN, and it may take special circumstances for it TO happen, but I think you're looking at a brewing situation here that could potentially be political suicide for anybody wanting to prop involved parties up if it turns out the evidence is clear and it seems like it is, at least so far.

 

[InvalidError]

Tell that to Arthur Andersen/Enron or WorldCom. There is no such thing as too big to fall.

If your failure is big enough a threat to the public, then you get things like the Big-Bank-Bailout, followed by banks buying out congress to remove legislation that got put in place to prevent this situation from occurring again.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Well, it's true enough that there's corruption everywhere. Depends on how much collateral damage is likely to happen. Politicians tend to be a lot less likely to be receptive to it if it's a well publicized affair or there is a significant chance of it hurting their own agendas/careers. Be kind of hard to hide this blunder in a tangle of misdirections though.

 

[DGurney]

This doesn't explain how the attacks work, even at a simplistic level. Come on! I've seen better "reporting" on CNet.

And that's an insult.