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(Intel CEO) Krzanich said the entire industry was planning to publish the data security issue once the fix was in place — but the problem leaked early."Why did it leak ahead of time? Somebody was doing some updates on a Linux kernel and they improperly posted that this was due to this flaw," Krzanich said.TC
As interesting as all this is, and no doubt will become more interesting now as it all unfolds in the future, I can't say I'm surprised.Big business usually doesn't give a sh*t about anything but big business.I'd near bet if they weren't caught with their pants down it wouldn't have been published at all.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/testfile bs=512 count=5000000
Just to explain myself. In my area. I am more likely to have have my car stereo stolen stolen than this exploit to take hold on my computers.I care more about the stereo.
~$ inxi -fCPU: Single core AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (-UP-) cache: 512 KB speed/max: 1000/2400 MHz CPU Flags: 3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch apic clflush cmov cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de extapic extd_apicid fpu fxsr fxsr_opt lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx mmxext msr mtrr nopl nx pae pat pge pni pse pse36 rdtscp rep_good sep sse sse2 svm syscall tsc vme vmmcall$ inxi -SSystem: Host: biker Kernel: 4.4.0-104-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial$ cat /etc/llverLinux Lite 3.6