[holowoodman]

Spectre/Meltdown is the perfect example of a vendor, Intel and AMD, deflecting blame onto the OS and software producers, successfully avoiding a recall, avoiding refunds for decreased performance and avoiding most of the blame.

What actually should have happened there is a full recall of all affected hardware. Microcode fixes and payments for lost performance in the mean time, until the new hardware arrives.

Meltdown was a desaster, but not only because the bugs themselves were bad. But also especially because we let Intel and AMD get away scott free.

[chii]

There is no world in which a recall (and/or a refund) is ever possible.

Until it is demonstrated that such flaws are a life and death fault, no regulation is possible for such flaws (unlike cars - which do have such recalls for faults that have life and death implications).

[holowoodman]

In the world of physical goods, that is totally normal. Only software is different. And maybe the US.