That might change as they spin up the group and discover that security experts would be effective leaders, but you're right that it smells of PR damage control and not a genuine interest in tightening up the sorts of problems that Meltdown and Spectre brought to light.
I am not willing to sacrifice the kind of performance noted for my Windows 7 laptop running a Sandy Bridge i7 CPU. That is stupid, especially given that there really is NO threat. Now that so many systems are going to be updated, there is little reason for any scumbags to try to exploit these vulnerabilities, IMO. From my perspective, the cure is far worse than the disease, especially on older hardware / OS combinations. It just is not worth it. So, I believe Microsoft should make a way to have these patches be OPTIONAL and AVOIDABLE and UNINSTALLABLE. This is crap!
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Zingam - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link
With an HR and a director of finance at the Head, Intel doesn't seem to be actually genuinely interested in security!PeachNCream - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link
That might change as they spin up the group and discover that security experts would be effective leaders, but you're right that it smells of PR damage control and not a genuine interest in tightening up the sorts of problems that Meltdown and Spectre brought to light.thuckabay - Friday, January 12, 2018 - link
I am not willing to sacrifice the kind of performance noted for my Windows 7 laptop running a Sandy Bridge i7 CPU. That is stupid, especially given that there really is NO threat. Now that so many systems are going to be updated, there is little reason for any scumbags to try to exploit these vulnerabilities, IMO. From my perspective, the cure is far worse than the disease, especially on older hardware / OS combinations. It just is not worth it. So, I believe Microsoft should make a way to have these patches be OPTIONAL and AVOIDABLE and UNINSTALLABLE. This is crap!joeroot123 - Monday, April 30, 2018 - link
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