The inventor of Linux is furious at Intel

Linux inventor and founder Linus Torvalds is not known for holding back strong opinions he has about computers, which is why he's become one of the loudest voices critical of Intel's handling of the so-called Meltdown bug, which was revealed on Wednesday and could enable an attacker to steal confidential information, including passwords.
"I think somebody inside of Intel needs to really take a long hard look at their CPU's, and actually admit that they have issues instead of writing PR blurbs that say that everything works as designed," Torvalds wrote in a sharply-worded email sent on to a Linux list on Wednesday.
Also: SUSE Responds to Meltdown and Spectre CPU Vulnerabilities in SLE and openSUSE
-
- Login or register to post comments
Printer-friendly version
- 6114 reads
PDF version
Debian, SUSE, Canonical
Canonical Will Soon Patch all Supported Ubuntu Releases Against Meltdown/Spectre
Ubuntu Updates for the Meltdown / Spectre Vulnerabilities
Current Status: openSUSE and “Spectre” & “Meltdown” vulnerabilities
Ouch
Red Hat
Red Hat responds to the Intel processor flaw
Red Hat, tech giants move to counter major security flaws Meltdown, Spectre
Speculative Execution Exploit Performance Impacts - Describing the performance impacts to security patches for CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715