> ...there is such a thing as computer security...

> Of course there is. (...continues to talk about software security)

A bit over-optimistic when looking at hardware vulneraribilties like Spectre/Meltdown.

Secure software isn't worth much when it runs on vulnerable hardware (at least Spectre/Meltdown could be worked around in software though, but at a cost.

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josephg 20 hours ago | parent [-]

There's "no such thing as computer security", because this one time computer security researchers found vulnerabilities?

You know that's their actual job right? That and fixing the problem. Which they did in both software and hardware.

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farlight 19 hours ago | parent [-]

One time? lscpu on my system lists two dozen CPU vulnerabilities known to the kernel. I stopped tracking them a long time ago when it felt like every week brought another information leak or bypass.

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josephg 19 hours ago | parent [-]

When I run that on my computer I see a big list of CPU vulnerabilities. All of them are either mitigated in software or fixed at the hardware level.

Looks to me like the security researchers have been doing their jobs.

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hashstring 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, except that they haven’t been able to fix this completely in sw and the community knows this.

	▲	josephg 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fix what?