While this article may not be factual, it is completely within the realm of possibilities. This is a huge problem and there may be HUGE consequences.

What I'd like to know is how these issues persisted for over 20 years without detection.  I assume Intel, AMD and the other chip manufactures have some really smart people on staff.  Given that, how did these issues, that are basic to the CPU functionality, become built in without detection (or functionality left out).  How is it that some guy reading the CPU manual discovered he could trick the CPU into spilling it's cache so he can have access to other programs data.  How is it that under certain circumstances Kernel memory can be accessed giving away the store.

I've read these issues may have persisted as far back as 1995.  How does that happen?  How does an army of engineers miss this for 23 years?  How do you explain that?

That means lots of people came and went.  There should have been lots of QA... for 23 years.

How does this happen?  Only two ways I can see 1) sloppy work, or 2) intentionally.

We all know that every phone call and electronic message is stored in Government warehouse(s).  We have all heard that it is possible to function our cellular phones remotely so others can spy on us. And there is much more....

If this was done for the Gov.  Maybe it was done for national security -- not meant to be used against U.S.citizens.  Maybe it was done (if intentional) to give the Gov the ability to spy on our adversaries.  Maybe it started out innocently.

The bottom line is we have a HUGE problem that will take years to work though.   And we have a HUGE question of how did this persist for 23 years without detection?



On 2018-01-10 22:03, Steve Litt wrote:

On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:39:54 -0700
techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote:

Hi,

Who knows if this is true, however here it is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CBTS_Stream/comments/7pb7pv/intels_security_flaw_is_no_flaw/?st=jc9a2mp7&sh=7ef2e2c1

I would hope people smart enough and possessing enough knowledge of
logic to program computers would have the smarts and logic not to pass
along "information" like this, even with the "who knows if this is
true" disclaimer. I didn't see one reference to a remotely credible
source, and I saw an obvious political agenda in both the article and
the comments.

I went up the URL to https://www.reddit.com/r/CBTS_Stream/ and still
saw nothing but drivel from wannabe poser internet journalists making
up unsupported pseudo-speculations. No different from the tabloids at
the checkout line, except probably less credible.

Passing along a URL to a sewer site like this is a disservice to all,
and lowers your credibility, "who knows if this is true" not
withstanding. I hope nobody passes this further, because it's almost
certainly just plain bullshit.

SteveT

Steve Litt
December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
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