Smaller competitors, though, continue to struggle. DigitalOcean Inc., a cloud-services seller, said Jan. 19 it was still testing a fix for its customers. Rackspace Inc. said last Wednesday it has several teams working on a fix. The cloud company earlier in January told customers it understood the situation “can be frustrating.”
The DHS also stumbled with its initial guidance. The agency’s Computer Emergency Response Team first linked to an advisory stating the only way to “fully remove” the flaws was by replacing the chip. CERT now advises users instead to patch their systems.
And there is the Intel told select partners (including companies in China) a year ago but not governments including the US. I dont think that so bad but the everyone is our enemy on the news makes it look bad.
I mean governments would not fix it only exploit it. Well Intel did not fix it either in that year so there is that.
Do you think Intel, given that extra week, wouldn’t have borked their own patches? I’m guessing they would’ve released the same ones that have had to be rolled back anyway.
Honestly if you know how Intel + Vendors make their hardware ecosystem it’s pretty obvious that from a business standpoint industries in China will be among the very first to find out.
It’s just bound to happen.
A large part of their R&D and manufacturing is located in China.
As for informing the US Goverment/CERT etc. Those are all secondary to a multinational like Intel.
They have all the governments to worry about.
If anyone thought Intel was solely beholden to the US government first and foremost they are sorely mistaken. Most multinationals will work according to their Business structure and bottom line first and foremost.