Intel Hit With Three Class-Action Lawsuits Over Meltdown and Spectre Bugs (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Intel has been hit with at least three class-action lawsuits over the major processor vulnerabilities revealed this week. Three separate class-action lawsuits have been filed by plaintiffs in California, Oregon and Indiana seeking compensation, with more expected. All three cite the security vulnerability and Intel's delay in public disclosure from when it was first notified by researchers of the flaws in June. Intel said in a statement it "can confirm it is aware of the class actions but as these proceedings are ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment." The plaintiffs also cite the alleged computer slowdown that will be caused by the fixes needed to address the security concerns, which Intel disputes is a major factor. "Contrary to some reports, any performance impacts are workload-dependent, and, for the average computer user, should not be significant and will be mitigated over time," Intel said in an earlier statement.

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This Will Go Nowhere

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Court: "OK, so your chip turned out to have a flaw, the company took extra time to investigate, and now your computer is slower sometimes. How is that different than the average Microsoft or Apple update?"

Intel's lawyers will delay this until the hype is forgotten, and either kill it in court or settle for some absurdly low sum, so that all of the plaintiffs get checks for $0.64 if they remember to sign up at IntelProcessorSlowdownLawsuit.com before December 31, 2019.

Re: God bless America!!

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You seem to have a design fault: an extra inverter somewhere.

Socialism is concerned with other people and how a community can be run in the interests of all its members. In practice, there is no other way for humans to live decently. Among others, it was warmly recommended by Jesus Christ.

The people who cry "Me me me!!! It's all about ME!" are rabid ultra-capitalists - as represented, I take it, by the Republican Party. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party has chosen to be a carbon copy of the Republicans rather than an alternative.