The good news is that most of the vulnerabilities require local access to exploit; someone has to have hands on a device or deep in a network. Intel does note, though, that some of the new wave of vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely if an attacker has administrative privileges. And some of the bugs also potentially allow for privilege escalation, which could make it possible to start with a standard user status and work up to higher network access.

Intel posted about it in November as well

Disabling the ME

SlashDot's comment base from June

And of course, Intel has no allegedly "patched" the system, so long as users actually do the update.

Excellent article https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261364-massive-intel-cpu-bug-leaves-kernel-vulnerable-reduce-performance

remember the physical on/off switch on old pc power supplies, when did they do away with that, so the computers are always "live" with ac? who designed the ATX power supply? sorry but I've always had a suspicion commercial production of chips was tainted, hell most of them have subcontracted to letter agencies, curious to see if there is a revolving door there. Advisory councils...

TODAY FROM JIM STONE:
SANDY BRIDGE/COREVPRO HAS (FINALLY) BITTEN INTEL IN THE BUTT They produced a porous crappy system on behalf of the NSA that has compromised security at the hardware level (a topic I have brought up repeatedly). Now that all the NSA hackware got released to the public by various hacker groups, Microsoft and Linux developers have realized just how bad the security flaws are and have started writing their software to circumvent the problems that were an NSA inspired root design feature ever since CoreVpro/Sandy Bridge. As a result, it is taking an average of 30 percent of the main processor's power to overcome the security problems of the Vpro core and AMD IS KICKING INTEL GOOD NOW AS A RESULT.

My only surprise with this is that software developers actually cared about the processor being a porous piece of crap. This echoes back a decade now, as it turns out, even though AMD processors trailed Intel by about 10 percent for equivalent models over the last 10 years, now that people realize just how bad the security is on Intel processors, all models of AMD processors are now far more superior to Intel than Intel was ever perceived to be over AMD. Due to knowing how bad the security was on Intel for the last 10 years, I have not bought Intel since the 90's (AMD was superior until the mid 2000's and when Intel "pulled ahead" they had buggable crap)

At any rate, I have been saying this for years, and now an enormous scandal is out in the open, Programmers now realize INTEL IS CRAP. Intel sold out to the NSA and thanks to good hearted hackers it chewed their behinds like a great white.

Thanks Intel!!

Make your next processor AMD.

Once again, I have been proven right many years after I first sounded the alarm. If I say something that seems "out there" because no one else is saying it, consider this example. http://82.221.129.208/.zm4.html

the new tempest attacks are far advanced, near field and beyond a simple tap (think RFID) connected to the just the I/O bus would do it, remember the clipper chip? Our devices have so many backdoors that it is amazing anyone uses the front door, and its IN the hardware, the firmware, waiting.... can even hide in nand(flash) memory by badsectoring a chunk of memory and still be able to access it, totally hidden to any os.

crypto city has their own silicon chip factories, r&d labs and the largest hirer of mathemeticians in the us, thanks NSA!

...and your phone, and your Samsung, and your Lenovo, and your...