From Jim Stone: Linus Torvalds, original creator of Linux, said (some of) the same things I have been saying with different words: "As it is, the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE," Torvalds said in a message posted to the Linux kernel mailing list on Sunday. "All of this is pure garbage. Is Intel really planning on making this sh*t architectural?" he asked. "Has anybody talked to them and told them they are f*cking insane? Please, any Intel engineers here - talk to your managers."] Torvalds said that the best possible solutions for the company would be to recall two decades worth of products and to give everyone free CPUs. But instead, Intel is trying to avoid huge losses and further damage to its reputation, and intends to continue shipping flawed hardware with software protection which will be turned off by default, he explained. "The whole IBRS_ALL feature to me very clearly says 'Intel is not serious about this, we'll have a ugly hack that will be so expensive that we don't want to enable it by default, because that would look bad in benchmarks,'" Torvalds wrote. "So instead they try to push the garbage down to us. And they are doing it entirely wrong, even from a technical standpoint." My comment: He's probably not into conspiracy and does not know how deep this rabbit hole goes. When he says "are they really planning to make this sh*t architectural" he does not understand that Intel HAS TO, because the back doors are architectural so any fix has to shut the compromised architecture off. He has not figured out it was intentional. But at least he knows it is a hell of a lot worse than stated, and that a sledgehammer is the ONLY ANSWER (give everyone free CPU's). He's also wrong about "two decades", it is instead 15 years to be exact but admittedly, that is splitting hairs. The original report is on RT here FINAL COMMENT FOR THIS LITTLE PIECE: He's expecting Intel to suddenly barf up an entirely new CPU architecture to make up for it. They can't. The ba...