“I’m betting that the Intel “flaw” was deliberate, and someone spilled the beans so they are pretending it was an “error”.”
You may be right, but the other chip manufacturers also said they were vulnerable. Does anyone know exactly the the ‘flaw’ was, or at least how such a flaw in the chip allows vulnerability? Does it somehow allow for access to data before it is encrypted?
“Does anyone know exactly the the ‘flaw’ was, or at least how such a flaw in the chip allows vulnerability? “
Basically, the Kernel was compromised, allowing, under a specific set of circumstances (normally used to increase chip performance), access to CPU memory areas that would normally be forbidden and impervious.
It smells fishy. The people who design processors, and the people who write the microcode that drives them are not careless folks. A flaw such as this would have been discovered by any reasonably curious chip designer designing the next chip generation using the previous generation as a starting point.
It’s possible, perhaps even likely, that this flaw was deliberately propagated by design over the past 20 years or so.
There is even precedent for this sort of thing.
I do not believe
Oh, and the next generation of Intel chips will have another “flaw” that will allow for the “right” people to access everything connected to the next generation of processors, same as this one.
They think we are stupid.