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SoylentNews first reported the vulnerabilities on January 3. Since then, we have had a few stories addressing different reports about these vulnerabilities. Now that it is over two weeks later and we are *still* dealing with reboots, I am curious as to what our community's experience has been.
What steps have you taken, if any, to deal with these reports? Be utterly proactive and install every next thing that comes along? Do a constrained roll out to test a system or two before pushing out to other systems? Wait for the dust to settle before taking any steps?
What providers (system/os/motherboard/chip) have been especially helpful... or non-helpful? How has their response affected your view of that company?
What resources have you been using to check on the status of fixes for your systems? Have you found a site that stands above the others in timeliness and accuracy?
How has this affected your purchasing plans... and your expectations on what you could get for selling your old system? Are you now holding off on purchasing something new?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bradley13 on Friday January 19 2018, @02:57PM
I manage the IT for an SME (very small):
Steps taken to deal with the reports? None. Assume MS/Linux updates will happen when ready. For AWS cloud servers, assume that AWS updates will happen when ready. The systems are all set up securely, are behind firewalls, the company doesn't hold any really sensitive data. "No action" seems to be the most sensible choice.
What providers have been helpful? I haven't heard from any system providers, not even for recently purchases systems (which we do have).
What resources you been using to check on the status of fixes? Um, that would be "none" again. Nothing I'm going to do about these security holes anyway, so...let things take their course.
How has this affected your purchasing plans? If AMD keeps up the good work, it's back to AMD processors. AMD had fallen behind for a while, but Ryzen already looked good, and now it looks even better. That is: if the system builders (Asus, Acer, Dell, whoever) have AMD offerings in their catalogs. I'm not building systems myself, it's just not worth it.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.