Re: OT: Major Intel Memory Vulnerability - worse than Y2K?

2018-01-05 Thread Eric Oyen
well, that was a known factor well ahead of time. This situation is different. Intel KNEW there might be a problem with this method of memory processing. They just didn't know how big a problem it could turn out to be. And all of these chips are in everything from routers, to servers to

OT: Major Intel Memory Vulnerability - worse than Y2K?

2018-01-05 Thread Victor Odhner
So, Eric — You don’t think Y2K had consequences? :) It just happened to be a raft of stupid bugs that the industry dealt with in time. I was coding around Y2K bugs as early as 1979, as were lots of other people, just matter of factly planning on Y2K, but some of the older and more primitive