We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Recommended articles for 1/4/2018

I learned of these "serious flaws" from Financial Times that posted an article which stated "The flaws make it possible for a hacker to steal data from a computer’s core memory or from other programs running on the system." And the post went on to state that fixing the problem is almost prohibitively expensive. I agree with one commentator who essentially wrote that when auto manufacturers make faulty equipment, they are held liable to fix this fault. So why not the chip manufacturer Intel?
There have been other websites (see for example, the post in the San Francisco Chronicle) that have posted similar articles, but their content seems to downplay the problem. I am posting an article from this website so that non-subscribers to Financial Times can learn about this problem.
I can't help but wonder if this was purely an oversight on the part of Intel, and I suspect that reporting the problem was motivated by rumors that were already leaking out and spreading.