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posted by janrinok on Tuesday January 30 2018, @12:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the money-trumps-loyalty dept.

Intel informed Chinese companies, including Lenovo and Alibaba, of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws in its processors before the U.S. government found out from reading press reports:

Intel Corporation initially warned a handful of customers, including several Chinese technology firms, about security flaws within its processor chips, while at the same time not telling the U.S. government, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

Security experts told the newspaper that the decision could have allowed Chinese tech companies to flag the vulnerabilities to Beijing, giving the Chinese government opportunity to exploit them.

Jake Williams, head of the security company Rendition Infosec and former National Security Agency (NSA) employee, told the Journal that it is a "near certainty" the Chinese government knew about the flaws from the Intel correspondence with Chinese tech companies, as Beijing keeps tabs on such communications.

The Journal reported that Alibaba Group, a top selling Chinese cloud-computing services company, was among the firms notified of the flaw early on.

The NSA is more likely to spy on you than China.

Intel CEO sold shares on same day OEMs informed of bugs: report

Also at TechCrunch and Engadget.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @10:21AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @10:21AM (#630265)

    Isn't that the reason some ancient sages created the legend of magic space grandpa, his son, his winged soldiers and that dungeon dude with the trident, horns and furnace? To incentivize people to be "good" and act with enough decency to one another to enable cooperative living?

  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday January 30 2018, @11:16AM

    by anubi (2828) on Tuesday January 30 2018, @11:16AM (#630277) Journal

    I believe you hit the nail squarely on the head. A leadership tool.

    Nobody listens to just another average joe. Gotta have a fancy hat or something. And reporting to someone even higher up, because everyone sees them put pants on just like they do.

    Yep... motivational theory... fear and greed. My God is NOT a Witch Doctor!

    There is a very thin line between fear and hatred. My respect is borne out of an appreciation for things around me, kindnesses offered me, not the fear of a whoopin'. If I get one, God won't do it. It will come from the ones I have wronged. Karma. What I sow, I am gonna reap. What goes 'round comes 'round.

    My own hell is I go to the grave, knowing I did not help things out one bit, or worse, knowing my existence made everything worse.

    Like everyone else, I have loved ones. Including my friends and neighbors.

    I have heard it said that "God is Love". Good as any I suppose. But I am still insanely curious of why I am.

    --
    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]