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Lawmakers Raise Questions About Disclosure of CPU Flaws

January 25, 2018

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The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday sent letters to several tech giants, raising questions about how the disclosure of the CPU vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown was handled.

Lawmakers have asked the CEOs of Intel, AMD, ARM, Apple, Google and Microsoft to answer a series of questions on how the disclosure of the flaws was coordinated.

Specifically, the tech giants have been asked about why an embargo was imposed and who proposed it, when were US-CERT and CERT/CC notified, the impact of the embargo on critical infrastructure and other technology companies, the resources and best practices used in implementing the embargo, and lessons learned. The targeted companies have been instructed to respond by February 7.

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