Re:About speculative execution vulnerabilities in ARM-based ...
by wyldfire on Friday January 05, 2018 @09:46AM
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> In the coming days we plan to release mitigations in Safari to help defend against Spectre.
If Apple was able to patch macOS in the ~6 month window since the issue was discovered why were they unable to patch Safari?
Same question for Chrome and Firefox. Surely Google knew about it and hopefully they contacted Mozilla. It seems like the scope of the fixes for Chrome and Firefox are the same.
Does it really take six months to do dev & QA for a fix like this? Wasn't the plan to disclose this to the public in January anyways?
If Apple was able to patch macOS in the ~6 month window since the issue was discovered why were they unable to patch Safari?
Same question for Chrome and Firefox. Surely Google knew about it and hopefully they contacted Mozilla. It seems like the scope of the fixes for Chrome and Firefox are the same.
Does it really take six months to do dev & QA for a fix like this? Wasn't the plan to disclose this to the public in January anyways?