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Title: Intel facing multiple class actions
Post by: Bowdon on January 06, 2018, 05:11:28 PM

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180104006325/en/Branstetter-Stranch-Jennings-Doyle-APC-Announce-Filing (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180104006325/en/Branstetter-Stranch-Jennings-Doyle-APC-Announce-Filing)

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Branstetter, Stranch & Jennings, PLLC of Nashville (BS&J), and Doyle APC of San Diego, California, have filed a class action lawsuit against Intel Corporation for alleged design flaws in Intel’s computer processors.

A big thread with all the details below: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/881874-update-intel-gets-multiple-class-action-lawsuits-over-cpu-vulnerability/ (https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/881874-update-intel-gets-multiple-class-action-lawsuits-over-cpu-vulnerability/)

Title: Re: Intel facing multiple class actions
Post by: kitz on January 06, 2018, 05:48:38 PM

• Why am I not surprised?
• How much compensation will ever reach the average consumer?
• As usual I expect the only winners to make money out of this will be Lawyers
• Is there also going to be a similar class action lawsuit for AMD, ARM re Spectre?
• I'm not well up on this kind of thing - but if a vulnerability is found and then a security patch has to be applied, then could that not apply to many other things within the computing industry.
  Surely it would be negligence if they didn't apply a patch.  No win situation I guess.

Title: Re: Intel facing multiple class actions
Post by: Weaver on January 07, 2018, 12:56:13 AM

What Kitz said.

This is disgusting. Whom does this benefit. Stifles innovation perhaps, and its a tax making smaller outfits live in fear. It’s just a shakedown. I can’t possibly imagine where it could go practically in any case because no one has been harmed, not to mention there was no malice. It surely is an attempt at plain blackmail and an out-of-court settlement, and the courts should spot this and ctrl-alt-del it on day zero. The fact that it has taken this many decades for researchers to cotton on to the problems shows that it was a design mistake that was to some extent forgiveable given the security awareness of the times and what was known in the state of the art. I might well have got this wrong, and that is with the best will in the world. (BTW I’m not a hardware engineer.)

Title: Re: Intel facing multiple class actions
Post by: banger on January 07, 2018, 01:47:42 AM

On my travels trying to discover more about Meltdown and my system I came across a snippet that Intel has a fund for this type of situation but no one knows how big the fund is.