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minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up291arrow-down2·1 year agoDownfall, Inception, Meltdown, Spectre, I hate to see new vulnerabilities, but their naming choices are solid.
minus-squareEl Barto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up142·1 year agoThey should name them after their investors and board members.
minus-squarenikt@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·1 year agoGelsinger, McKeon, and Lavender do have a nice ring to them.
minus-squaredingleberry@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54arrow-down2·1 year agoSounds like Bond movies.
minus-squareelvith@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60·edit-21 year agoImagine a bug in the ALU when adding two octal values - Octoplussy Or a bug in a specific Intel generation - Skylakefall
minus-squareemogu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·1 year agoThe next one will be discovered On Her Motherboard’s Secret Processes
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year agoAll four of those names are movies. Only one is a Bond movie, though.
minus-squaremishimaenjoyer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up34·1 year agocan’t wait for “shellshock”, “wildfire” and “collapse”.
minus-squarenabladabla@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61·edit-21 year agoShellshock happened in 2014 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug)
Downfall, Inception, Meltdown, Spectre, I hate to see new vulnerabilities, but their naming choices are solid.
They should name them after their investors and board members.
Gelsinger, McKeon, and Lavender do have a nice ring to them.
Sounds like Bond movies.
Imagine a bug in the ALU when adding two octal values - Octoplussy
Or a bug in a specific Intel generation - Skylakefall
The next one will be discovered On Her Motherboard’s Secret Processes
All four of those names are movies. Only one is a Bond movie, though.
can’t wait for “shellshock”, “wildfire” and “collapse”.
Shellshock happened in 2014 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug)
oh lol