Google’s Project Zero team discovered critical CPU flaw last year

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> They also indicated their Project Zero team discovered this vulnerability last year (although they weren’t specific with the timing).

Last year was four days ago. Headline is one of those delightful sensationalist opportunities you only get for a few weeks each year.

Semi-sensational headline makes it seem like they've known this for well over a year. It's been known for approx. 6 months.

Feels like companies is starting it's not a problem or known for a period of time, how are you coming up with approx. 6 months?

From [0]:

>Variants of this issue are known to affect many modern processors, including certain processors by Intel, AMD and ARM. For a few Intel and AMD CPU models, we have exploits that work against real software. We reported this issue to Intel, AMD and ARM on 2017-06-01 [1].

[0] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com.es/2018/01/reading-pr...

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