Worth noting that in this case, many of the authors are in academia. It wasn't solely a Google project.
edit: I'm sure everyone involved acted responsibly. I'm just curious as how far apart these independent discoveries were made.
The bug has been around forever, but it must have been discovered relatively recently since it's not fixed in hardware yet.
I've always been baffled by the concept of simultaneous discovery.
> We would like to thank Intel for their professional handling of this issue through communicating a clear timeline and connecting all involved researchers.
1) Have any of them ended up in Project Zero or working on stuff like this
2) Wonder if NSA knew about this vulnerability and now someone there in a windowless office is sighing saying to themselves "Welp, another backdoor we can't use".