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Meltdown and Spectre response hampered by ‘exclusive club’ secrecy

by Tammy.Cavadias . Updated 8 years, 4 months ago

Open-source community leaders have slammed the ‘absolute sh*t show’ of an embargo process that left many key constituencies just days to develop complex software patches.

[b][i]Could vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre be spotted more quickly if processors moved to more open architectures, designs that could be more directly reviewed and influenced by software communities?[/i][/b]

Read full ZDNet article here: [url=”http://www.zdnet.com/article/meltdown-and-spectre-response-hampered-by-exclusive-club-secrecy/#ftag=TRC-16-10aaa2g”] Meltdown and Spectre response hampered by ‘exclusive club’ secrecy [/url]

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