Thread time! Why can't they just quickly patch #meltdown or #spectre and push out another cpu? Why could it possibly take years? Why don't they use AGILE or x/y/z? Lots of reasons:
(note: my goal is not to criticize chip manufacturers - it's to defend the constraints they have)
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The real issue here is: Users don't care. . For an example how a low level security issue in widespread hw plays out in the real world, look at the mirai bug & bot net in router SW
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Public health & self-defense are always entirely separate issues. You can legitimately criticize obstruction of the latter even when it wouldn't help the former.
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At this point you're probably better off buying one of the ARM in-order variants that aren't vulnerable, such as Cortex A55...
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That's a bigger change, and may not be an option if you don't have ARM versions of sw (either binaryware of distro with poor/no ARM support).
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