And you're rambling on paranoia and linking to sites that are just regurgitating info like the ignorant asshats on social media. If I was telling you "crap you already knew" you wouldn't make ignorant statements like
Being the owner of a couple skylake cpu's, I'm not happy about that.
It's a gigantic huge fricken mess and they do not have a good fix as of yet
Then backing that up with:
My next builds are going to be Ryzen's
When all AMD chips are susceptible to the same variant 2/3 ****, yet I'm the one showing ignorance? I had a meeting about these flaws with key people of the F-35 project right before Christmas. I was paid overtime to sit at work on Christmas Eve in a room full of people discussing exactly what I just told you above. I had the white papers printed and in hand before the general public knew about it. I'll repeat it again, if they're not worried about their Java and multi-virtual clustered multi-trillion dollar defense project, neither should we. Don't care to listen to me fine, but moving to AMD won't change anything and neither will being paranoid about flaws that don't pertain to you in any way. You don't want to get into a pissing match because you were showing your ignorance on the subject right from the start.
Here, let me pick apart even the dumb articles you are linking.
It could allow hackers to bypass the hardware barrier between applications run by users and the computer's core memory. Meltdown, therefore, requires a change to the way the operating system handles memory to fix, which initial speed estimates predict could affect the speed of the machine in certain tasks by as much as 30%.
There isn't a "hardware barrier", it's literally reading the shared memory pool from the speculative part from the kernel. Meltdown is literally patched from a kernel standpoint. Don't allow what is essentially "root" access to programs working within memory running a speculative task allowing any program to read memory that another program is working in. It isn't anywhere near 30% for 90% of users out there because it's purely I/O based. AKA, VMs and heavy disk to RAM tasks. At most a user will experience a 5% decrease in read/write operations from disk to RAM utilizing fast NVMe SSDs. Again, another small percentage of people, myself included.
Moving to AMD right?
The Spectre flaw affects most modern processors made by a variety of manufacturers, including Intel, AMD and those designed by ARM, and potentially allows hackers to trick otherwise error-free applications into giving up secret information. Spectre is harder for hackers to take advantage of but is also harder to fix and would be a bigger problem in the long term, according to Gruss.
Because it requires physical access. You gonna let randos access your machine and dump garbage onto your machine? Guessing no, so problem solved.
Oh hey, look at that.
“Intel has begun providing software and firmware updates to mitigate these exploits,†Intel said in a statement, denying that fixes would slow down computers based on the company's chips. “Any performance impacts are workload-dependent, and, for the average computer user, should not be significant and will be mitigated over time.â€
Being patched already, and Meltdown is already taken care of.
Dan Guido, chief executive of cybersecurity consulting firm Trail of Bits, said that he expects hackers will quickly develop code they can use to launch attacks exploiting the vulnerabilities. He said: “Exploits for these bugs will be added to hackers' standard toolkits.â€
Wrong. Such "tools" aren't widely distributed among groups anymore, and hackers don't generally keep or utilize things that require physical access. And, if such an exploit was that easy "simply whip up a code" for it, they would have done it well before a 2 decade era has passed.
“All Mac systems and iOS devices are affected, but there are no known exploits impacting customers at this time,†said Apple in a blog post, in reference to the fact that although the security flaws make it possible to steal data using malicious software, there was no evidence to suggest that this had happened.
Of course, because they don't exist yet. And if Apple is saying blatantly that no devices are affected since they are all running Intel processors it would automatically mean that Windows and Linux devices are also not affected.
“The current Intel problem, if true, would likely not require CPU replacement in our opinion. However the situation is fluid,â€
Ah, there it is. Straight from the article you linked.
Even your own article you are linking is telling you it's patched and fine, yet I'm the ignorant one here? I also find this pretty funny coming from the guy who argued with me tooth and nail over Windows updates, yet here we are. If you've had auto update on since Jan 4th you have patched systems and if you went AMD you'd receive the same patches. Unless of course you're redacting what you were saying before, in that having updates on to "patch critical security holes" is now pointless.
Give it a rest already, nobody cares to take the time to get into your machine or mine because exploits like this take massive effort. If you were really that worried about it you wouldn't even be on here right now cause you would have tossed your machines in a fire, your modem, router, phone, and any other device utilizing an Intel, AMD, or ARM chip.