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> As far as I'm aware, neither of these is known to have resulted in damage yet

Damage as in malicious? No. Damage as in co's reporting higher instance usage on cloud services after patching? Yes. Don't discount companies being angry about higher hosting costs and taking it out on Intel via a financial damages suit.

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> Damage as in malicious? No. Damage as in co's reporting higher instance usage on cloud services after patching? Yes.

Playing devil's advocate a bit here, but you could also think about it differently. This whole time, faster-but-more-insecure processors were providing everyone with cheaper prices than they would have had otherwise with more secure processors. I feel your notion of "damage" is far weaker than mine.

Ask Volkswagen how your argument worked for them.

There's no law against processor bugs. Especially ones you fix when you're informed about them.

No. No one would ever take the "sure we fucked up but be happy that you got a deal" argument seriously. Ask Intel's legal counsel if they're willing to go on record with that counterpoint.

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