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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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.
By anexit (anexit) bannereddivpool@gmail.com on
Theo is right, the efficiency is terrible.