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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: 1) by anubi on Wednesday January 31 2018, @06:25AM

    by anubi (2828) on Wednesday January 31 2018, @06:25AM (#630837) Journal

    Thanks... we are definitely on the same page. I respect the spirit, but reject the interpretations others try to implant, especially if they are gonna pass plates.

    I feel I get played for a fool in church just as many of us get played for a fool by not understanding how our stuff works. We leave ourselves wide open to being taken advantage of for someone else's benefit. Like having some webmaster knowingly running javascripts behind our back that we would never run if WE were making an informed decision of what it would do when run.

    It would not be the first time I have been played for a fool.

    These guys are masters of invoking fear, uncertainty, and doubt. And we humans are about as vulnerable to that kind of psychological malware as an unpatched Windows box on the web.

    I respect you highly - for researching the ancient near-east records to find out for yourself. How is trying to get to the bottom of things without involving people ( known to be inaccurate as hell, and sometimes mean and deceitful as well ) a sin?

    Your observation about "matter, energy, space, and time (entropy, not just time as we measure it) are mostly different forms of the same thing" is the same as my take on it as well... the word I use for "thing" is "God". That is what I respect and worship. Its in everything and everyone.

    A golden calf is exactly that, no more, no less - as well as any other manmade symbol of worship. I may as well worship a toilet and maybe get a little use out of it.

    If money is the root of all evil, why are the preachermen always begging for it?

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