Theo de Raadt Details Intel Core 2 Bugs

Posted by kdawson on Thursday June 28, 2007 @12:53AM from the linux-last-in-line dept.

Eukariote writes "Recently, Intel patched bugs in its Core 2 processors. Details were scarce; soothing words were spoken to the effect that a BIOS update is all that is required. OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has now provided more details and analysis on outstanding, fixed, and non-fixable Core 2 bugs. Some choice quotes: 'Some of these bugs... will *ASSUREDLY* be exploitable from userland code... Some of these are things that cannot be fixed in running code, and some are things that every operating system will do until about mid-2008.'"

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Re:Yay AMD by Anonymous Coward · 2007-06-28 02:39 · Score: 0, Troll

What a load of old crap Intel has become. First, they brought out the P4 Prescott. I bought one, because it was the new thing. Prescotts turned out to be utter shit. They run as hot as the depths of hell, and aren't particularly fast. So when the Core 2 Duo came out, I eagerly upgraded. And now, it turns out that this seris can't even get basic CPU functions right.

In future, I am only buying PIII chips and earlier. Anything newer than that will have to be from one of Intel's competitors.