Intel told Chinese firms of Meltdown flaws before the US government

[froggyboy604]

Intel may have been working with many tech industry players to address the Meltdown and Spectre flaws, but who it contacted and when might have been problematic. Wall Street Journal sources have claimed that Intel initially told a handful of customers about the processor vulnerabilities, including Chinese tech companies like Alibaba and Lenovo, but not the US government. While the chip giant does have to talk to those companies to coordinate fixes, the Chinese government routinely monitors conversations like this -- it could have theoretically exploited the holes to intercept data before patches were available.

Intel told Chinese firms of Meltdown flaws before the US government

I wonder if the US government will arrest Intel workers who are responsible for informing Chinese companies, and charge Intel workers with being a traitor, or can Intel be held responsible if a US company or government agency got hacked by China's hacker army, or criminal hacker's who stole info from Lenovo and Alibaba, so they can hack Intel PCs and servers to steal data .

I bet, some patriotic American which are aware of Intel telling the Chinese about Intel Meltdown flaw secrets will now more likely buy a computer with an AMD CPU or Apple CPU like found on the iPad. Intel is putting America's computers and servers at risk by telling other countries about the Intel security flaw.

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

So the so-called "Chinese hackers" hysteria is back again?

Just ask yourself the following questions:
1. What would be the reason for Intel to contact Chinese firms of all things about their exploits?
2. Why would the Chinese government be interested in this in the first place?
3. If the Chinese government would have monitored that, then what did the US government do in the mean time? US monitors the entire world even harder than China does in their own country alone!

Considering all of that plus the fact it's coming from Wall Street Journal (a news source that by the way has been caught multiple times before on creating fake news!), I smell propaganda here.

 

[froggyboy604]

So the so-called "Chinese hackers" hysteria is back again?

Just ask yourself the following questions:
1. What would be the reason for Intel to contact Chinese firms of all things about their exploits?
2. Why would the Chinese government be interested in this in the first place?
3. If the Chinese government would have monitored that, then what did the US government do in the mean time? US monitors the entire world even harder than China does in their own country alone!

Considering all of that plus the fact it's coming from Wall Street Journal (a news source that by the way has been caught multiple times before on creating fake news!), I smell propaganda here.

Maybe the Wall Street Journal and US government want to damage China and Chinese companies like Lenovo reputation by mentioning Lenovo in their article because the US feels China is not doing enough to stop North Korea from testing nuclear weapons and missiles.

I think there is a chance that the US government will tell US companies and government agencies to not use Lenovo computers like how the US government have now stop using Chinese communication gear like routers from Chinese companies like Huawei and ZTE.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

This is some rather bad handling by the Intel company.

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

Maybe the Wall Street Journal and US government want to damage China and Chinese companies like Lenovo reputation by mentioning Lenovo in their article because the US feels China is not doing enough to stop North Korea from testing nuclear weapons and missiles.

The point is that China doesn't have to do much here, they already did what they had to do, which is to create a double freeze agreement.
In this agreement, Russia and China act as observers, and states that North Korea stops its nuclear tests, and in exchange the United States and South Korea stop their non-stop millitairy drills right next to the North Korean border (which by the way is one of the many aggressions that cost millions of US tax money).

Russia agreed, China agreed, North Korea agreed, South Korea wants to agree but can't due to US pressure, and the US denies.
Each time the US does drills near the North Korean border, North Korea responds by sending a missile to the sea, which is their way of saying "get the fuck out of here, you have no business being here!".

So who's the one that doesn't do enough to stop North Korea from testing nuclear weapons and missiles?

 

[froggyboy604]

The point is that China doesn't have to do much here, they already did what they had to do, which is to create a double freeze agreement.
In this agreement, Russia and China act as observers, and states that North Korea stops its nuclear tests, and in exchange the United States and South Korea stop their non-stop millitairy drills right next to the North Korean border (which by the way is one of the many aggressions that cost millions of US tax money).

Russia agreed, China agreed, North Korea agreed, South Korea wants to agree but can't due to US pressure, and the US denies.
Each time the US does drills near the North Korean border, North Korea responds by sending a missile to the sea, which is their way of saying "get the fuck out of here, you have no business being here!".

So who's the one that doesn't do enough to stop North Korea from testing nuclear weapons and missiles?

Trump is not satisfied for China's relationship with North Korea's leader according to Trump's twitter post.

The Chinese Envoy, who just returned from North Korea, seems to have had no impact on Little Rocket Man. Hard to believe his people, and the military, put up with living in such horrible conditions. Russia and China condemned the launch."

Donald J. Trump on Twitter

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

Trump is Trump.
He recently even claimed how the talks between North- and South Korea where thanks to him, while it was actually North Korea's initiative.
But honestly, the way Trump is Tweeting suggests the US refuses any kind of peace between North Korea and everyone else, and desperately wants to initialise a war there.

 

[froggyboy604]

I think most North and South Koreans don't want to start a war with each other because they have relatives, and friends stuck on either North Korea or South Korea. Some of them did not choose to be on either sides, but they got separated by the Korean war.

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

Officially the Korean war is still ongoing, it's just on pause forever because neither side has signed a peace treaty yet.

Both sides are looking for unification, but both nations have grown entirely incompatible with each other (hell, even the Korean language got split between a northern and southern variety, with the south adapting lots of English loanwords and limiting the use of Hanja (Chinese characters) in political writing, and with the north entirely abolishing the use of Hanja altogether for example).
But nonetheless, both Koreas still require their students to learn a certain amount of Hanja for historical reasons.

I don't think relatives and friends are reasons any more, they've been separated for so many decades now, it's highly unlikely people in the north know anyone in the south and vice versa.

 

[froggyboy604]

I agree both sides will have problems being compatible with each other. But, both sides getting along can be possible if both sides try hard enough to want to live peacefully.

Some Korean senior citizens still remember their family and friends who are stuck on either the South or the North. But, most of them most likely moved on with their lives.

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

I think the only thing that's stopping them from unifying is either pressure from the US (because NATO ally (not to be confused with NATO member!)), or the fact that North Korea claims the south as theirs but occupied by the US AND South Korea claims the north as theirs but occupied by the Soviet Union (which by the way no longer exist).

 

[froggyboy604]

I think it is possible that some big companies and rich people on both North Korea and South Korea do not want to unify because they are afraid that they may have to give away their land, and wealth like gold to either side.

The US may not want North and South Korea to unify because South Korea is one of the biggest buyers of American products like cars, smartphones like the iPhone, and natural resources, and South Korean companies like Hyundai, Kia, and Samsung create a lot of retail and factory jobs in America.

If the South and North Unify, Korea may not buy as many American products, and create American jobs.