Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 13:17:19 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt [REVISED] Message-ID: <94462.1116069439@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 May 2005 22:33:30 EDT." <17029.25466.587442.577866@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
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In message <17029.25466.587442.577866@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman writes: ><<On Sat, 14 May 2005 04:20:19 +0200, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> said: > >> The political problem is that if all operating systems do that, >> Intel has a pretty dud feature on their hands, and they are not >> particularly eager to accept that fact. > >Intel already had a pretty dud feature on their hands; just ask anyone >in the architecture community (probably including those who work for >Intel). While quite likely true, that is not really the issue here. The question is what it will take to make Intel warn their customers. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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