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Handling of CPU bugs disclosure 'incredibly bad': OpenBSD's de Raadt

Contributed by rueda on from the we-are-not-amused dept.

ITWire has published an article regarding Theo de Raadt's (deraadt@) reaction to the Meltdown/Spectre disclosures.

One choice quote reads:

Intel engineers attended the same conferences as other company engineers, and read the same papers about performance enhancing strategies – so it is hard to believe they ignored the risky aspects.

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  1. By Peter N. M. Hansteen (pitrh) peter@bsdly.net on http://bsdly.blogspot.com/

    Any vendors who want to atone for those sins (or other things we don't yet know about) could usefully visit https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html and use one or more of the options for donating to the project.

  2. By anexit (anexit) bannereddivpool@gmail.com on

    Theo is right, the efficiency is terrible.

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