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Reality Meets Hype, Film at 11
by Karl Denninger Market-Ticker.org
This one got my attention; compliments of Janet sending me the article….
A 112-page class action complaint was filed this week by plaintiffs represented by Bathaee Dunne. News of a Bathaee Dunne-led lawsuit against Intel over the Downfall vulnerability emerged in late August, when the law firm announced that it was preparing to file a complaint.
The plaintiffs say the Intel CPUs they have purchased are “defective” because they are either left vulnerable to cyberattacks or they have significantly slower performance due to the vulnerability fixes made available by the chip giant.
The complaint says Intel has known about speculative execution vulnerabilities in its processors since 2018, when cybersecurity researchers disclosed the existence of two attack methods named Meltdown and Spectre.
The speculative execution problem has in fact been known as a “risk” since 2018 but the technique pre-dates that, and not by a little.