Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt [REVISED]

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 05/14/05

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    To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 13:17:19 +0200

    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. 

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