[analognoise]

I love how all of a sudden the problem is obvious - so obvious it's existed for a decade with no known exploit, while speeding up processors considerably.

Intel should have hired all these really smart people on Reddit and HN. Imagine how much safer and faster our processors would be!

It's a screw up in the most complicated devices humanity has ever designed. It's borderline magic that they even exist, let alone the political stability required for 50 years of constant gains in processing power per dollar.

But nevermind that, they're a bunch of "LOL #YOLO" about security types, we should sue them because your data center power went up and now our dumbass 'world changing app' to look at random kittens as a subscription service is no longer profitable!

I think humanity doesn't deserve scientists and engineers.

[ahartmetz]

It was more of a criticism of priorities in CPU vendors (product management?) than of engineers.

Security is absolutely neglected all over the place in IT, including in things I've worked on myself. It's too expensive.