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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.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @11:36AM (2 children)
> I have met few engineers that did not have a deep respect for morality. By our very training, we know ultimately we are responsible for our doing.
HA HA HA HA LMAO!
Napalm, Agent Orange, V2 rockets, chem. weapons, bio weapons, landmines, just called and want to use your joke in their comedy routine at the next conference.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Tuesday January 30 2018, @11:53AM
I didn't say *all* of 'em!
For the precise reason you state.
War is war, and many things get justified during a war. My dad went through WW2. The Germans are excellent engineers. And empowered their leaders with many cruel weapons. Many engineers were forced to do this too. If I had some badge-hat waving a gun in my face and threatening my family, I suppose I would be obedient to orders as well, even though I would likely passively resist by overlooking design flaws in stuff proposed by the high-ups. So it would be their fault when it blew up, as I was just following orders.
When I got mixed up with some of these types, I felt I wasn't helping humanity much, rather I was toiling to make tools for the power-havers to enslave the don't haves. They think a lot different than I think. Everything seemed to boil down to enforced obedience.
If I read my history correctly, we are making fertile ground for yet another Hitler to spring up, fueled by the same economic imbalances that fomented the hatred among the German populace.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday January 30 2018, @04:59PM
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun