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Re:Scaleway patches infrastructure to mitigate Intel bug by eropple on Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:04PM (#16073068)
Probably. Smaller actors are less known quantities. Intel probably wanted to control the leak as long as possible.
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Re:Scaleway patches infrastructure to mitigate Intel bug by dylz on Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:10PM (#16073119)
This is France's first or second largest ISP, and they are also absolute datacentre owners (incl land).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad_SA

Not quite a smaller actor.

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Re:Scaleway patches infrastructure to mitigate Intel bug by eropple on Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:16PM (#16073174)
I know who they are, yeah. The folks getting talked-to are AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, VMWare--heavy hitters with the technical acumen to enact changes and provide useful, actionable feedback immediately. But, on top of that, the folks who've tipped that they've known about it are folks who are known for being good, cooperative partners in security matters--maybe Scaleway is too, but I can understand Intel restricting the conversation to the Big Ones who they already trust.
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