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[910.10 --> 910.64] and Amazon,
[910.98 --> 912.08] and all these huge companies
[912.08 --> 914.02] all came together to try to work on this.
[915.00 --> 917.24] And they've been working on it actually
[917.24 --> 918.96] for quite a while.
[920.72 --> 921.34] There's,
[921.70 --> 923.44] this is where we get into,
[924.82 --> 926.72] there's a lot of different information
[926.72 --> 928.92] and it's a little bit confusing
[928.92 --> 930.48] what happened next,
[930.48 --> 932.30] but the public figured out.
[932.72 --> 933.74] And the public figured out
[933.74 --> 936.22] not that long ago.
[936.78 --> 940.40] The main article that really blew up
[940.40 --> 941.32] in a lot of people's minds
[941.32 --> 942.78] because it was much more public facing,
[942.90 --> 943.36] I believe,
[943.48 --> 944.66] was the Register article,
[945.40 --> 946.28] register.co.uk,
[946.44 --> 948.54] which is posted in the WAN doc,
[948.60 --> 949.32] if you want to check it out,
[949.38 --> 949.88] on the forum.
[949.88 --> 951.36] That was,
[951.36 --> 952.32] as far as I know,
[952.44 --> 953.72] one of the biggest explosions
[953.72 --> 955.78] in terms of more people knowing.
[956.26 --> 957.32] There was talk about it
[957.32 --> 960.38] on more like programmer-focused back channels.
[960.52 --> 962.74] This was a big news outlet bringing it on.
[962.96 --> 964.10] I could be wrong about that.
[964.18 --> 965.18] It could have been someone else first.
[965.34 --> 966.46] This is the first one I saw.
[966.50 --> 966.70] Same.
[966.70 --> 967.66] And I think it's the first one
[967.66 --> 968.28] most people saw.
[969.68 --> 971.20] It got to there,
[971.34 --> 972.98] as far as I know,
[973.38 --> 976.42] because a programmer at AMD
[976.42 --> 979.46] pushed code to the Linux kernel.
[980.10 --> 980.94] Let's see here.
[981.82 --> 982.16] Ah.
[983.74 --> 984.26] Yeah.
[984.34 --> 985.12] So there was an embargo
[985.12 --> 986.18] on all this kind of stuff
[986.18 --> 988.18] through the Google Project Zero platform.
[988.78 --> 989.94] Not everyone agrees
[989.94 --> 991.20] with having embargoes
[991.20 --> 992.08] on these types of things.
[992.20 --> 993.82] Some people position themselves
[993.82 --> 995.92] with all information should be open.
[996.28 --> 996.82] Everyone should know
[996.82 --> 997.84] everything that's going on.
[999.02 --> 1000.10] And your opinion on that
[1000.10 --> 1001.26] is whatever, Zs.
[1001.34 --> 1002.44] But there was an embargo.
[1003.06 --> 1006.58] And it wasn't technically broken.
[1006.88 --> 1007.18] I don't know.
[1007.22 --> 1009.04] You can frame that however you want.
[1010.62 --> 1010.94] But...
[1010.94 --> 1012.26] Yeah.
[1012.34 --> 1012.66] So it says,
[1012.92 --> 1013.64] it's true that AMD
[1013.64 --> 1014.78] didn't actually reveal
[1014.78 --> 1016.12] the details of the flaw
[1016.12 --> 1017.68] before the embargo was up.
[1017.98 --> 1019.64] But one of the company's developers
[1019.64 --> 1021.00] came very close
[1021.00 --> 1021.64] and close enough
[1021.64 --> 1023.48] to infer what was actually going on.
[1024.58 --> 1025.44] An AMD developer
[1025.44 --> 1026.82] contributed a Linux patch
[1026.82 --> 1028.38] that excluded AMD chips
[1028.38 --> 1030.00] from the meltdown mitigation.
[1030.62 --> 1031.90] In the note with the patch,
[1031.98 --> 1032.66] the developer wrote,
[1032.98 --> 1034.54] the AMD microarchitecture
[1034.54 --> 1036.74] does not allow memory references,
[1037.00 --> 1038.40] including speculative references
[1038.40 --> 1040.68] that access higher privileged data
[1040.68 --> 1041.44] when running
[1041.44 --> 1042.92] in a lesser privileged mode
[1042.92 --> 1044.04] when that access
[1044.04 --> 1045.64] would result in a page fault.
[1046.02 --> 1047.00] So with that information,
[1047.44 --> 1048.40] knowing that people
[1048.40 --> 1050.12] are writing code
[1050.12 --> 1051.28] and it's extremely important,
[1051.28 --> 1053.30] having that
[1053.30 --> 1054.42] basically is like,
[1054.50 --> 1055.92] we are not vulnerable to this
[1055.92 --> 1057.00] and knowing that people
[1057.00 --> 1058.00] are working on something
[1058.00 --> 1058.62] very major
[1058.62 --> 1059.34] and he's like
[1059.34 --> 1060.68] excluding themselves from it,
[1060.68 --> 1061.52] you can kind of figure out
[1061.52 --> 1062.20] what's going on.
[1063.00 --> 1064.22] But then the guy
[1064.22 --> 1065.28] kind of got
[1065.28 --> 1066.56] murked by a,