Nimbus

What Happened? During the Summer of 2017, researchers from around the world discovered a design flaw in the computer chips that serve as the brains for our computers and mobile devices. That design flaw — seen in Intel, AMD and ARM licensed chips — allows for two security vulnerabilities to be run, called “Meltdown” and “Spectre”. Both sound ominous and for good reason: the flaws “could allow hackers to steal the entire memory contents of computers, including mobile devices, personal computers and servers running in so-called cloud computer networks” according to the NY Times. So, uh, yeh: that’s not good. Who and What Caused the Problem? These exploits are based on chip engineering flaws, not on software flaws. Apple, Google, Abode, Microsoft, and other software companies didn’t write poor software or bad Operating Systems to cause these problems to occur. Rather, the chip manufacturers — Intel, AMD and ARM — designed and then engineered computer chips with flaws built int...