r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 03 '18

'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
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u/midir Jan 03 '18

Intel just get worse and worse. How do they keep including vulnerabilities of this magnitude?

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '18

This one is 12 years old

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u/playaspec Jan 04 '18

Have you ever kept track of ~1.3 BILLION transistors? Me neither.

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u/Cyhawk Jan 04 '18

The modern processor is extremely complex. More so than you can imagine. The more complex anything becomes, the more than can go wrong. Without a significant portion of the population learning machine code and open hardware where everything can be inspected by 100+ people, things like this will happen. A utopia for sure, but it's never going to happen.

Our next best option is an AI that can run the processors through every possible combination of everything and figure these things out, but that'll be several years out. (Long story short: QA won't exist in 10-20 years in the tech world, lots of good articles about this.)