[chbot] Intel: Meltdown and Spectre patches flawed

[Mark Atherton]

This is an interesting, if not scary piece of news from 
https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1333039

"In January, Intel surprised us all with the news that it's Meltdown and 
Spectre CPU firmware patches were no good. The instructions were to 
immediately cease distributing and uploading the firmware patches. 
Unfortunately, people who had downloaded the patch could not uninstall 
it, creating endless reboots and unpredictable system behavior. Now even 
AMD has joined the debacle as it faces class action lawsuits over how it 
responded to the flaws"

Still not sure exactly which CPUs are affected, but one possible 
solution is to use older CPUs ...

Strange world we are living in huh ?

-Mark