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They're worried that you visit HackerNews, AMD.com and Phoronix. Intel should focus on getting their house in order and produce better hardware rather than to spy on their users.

Non-option, half of Intel's business is spying on users. Who would they sell the backdoors for IME to otherwise?

TBF, I'm fairly certain that only certain types of breads are affected by the speltdown issue

What is this "speltdown like issues"? I googled but found nothing.

Probably Meltdown and Spectre, but I've never seen the two of them abbreviated in this particular way.

To add to the other commenters, gp is likely also referring to the MDS issues, of which there are many. Here's a decent link (highlighted the latest major one): https://mdsattacks.com/#ridl-ng