On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 19:49:25 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/01/18 20:12, Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:06:46 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 15:47:25 GMT Wolfgang Mueller wrote: > >>>> It looks as though my CPU hasn't been fixed yet. Is that right? > >>> > >>> It seems that patches are being pushed out as they are being received, > >>> so back when that one was released, no other updates were available. > >>> > >>> See https://bugs.gentoo.org/643430#c10 > >>> > >>> We should get the full range of updates in the next few days. > >> > >> Right. Patience is a virtue, they say. > > > > So what are we to do with our old PCs, which will no longer receive > > Intel's > > microcode blessing? Are we to throw them away in a landfill and of course > > take our custom elsewhere, or will the kernel patches suffice for both > > bugs > > and all variants? > > The spectre bug needs a microcode update. It can't be closed by software. > > Intel has a page somewhere for people asking "why do I do with my old > PC", and they tell you to kindly fuck off (not in those words exactly, > but it's what they mean) and direct you to their latest CPUs and places > where you can buy them. And of course you'll also need to buy new > mainboards and new RAM. > > Millions and millions of computers are out there running Sandy Bridge > and Ivy Bridge CPUs, since they're almost as fast as the latest CPUs. > People use them as their main machines, or as secondary machines. > They're all over the place. And they're all going to be vulnerable from > here on out. > > Strangely, nobody in the press called Intel out on it. Everybody acts as > if this perfectly acceptable.
Strange that ... I can see a class action lawsuit kicking off in the very litigious US of A, assuming enough people wake up to this. -- Regards, Mick
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