>>So I will be most interested to see the OpenBSD take on this after the >> embargo period is over.
>How long is embargo period? apparently Intel were aware of one of issues as early as Late June Last year... and late july for another issue ... it will be interesting how quickly a handful of Volunteers can come up with a software countermeasure... I wish them well in cleaning up someone elses mess .. But I can bet it will be well faster than the 6 months those guys took to notify the public / other Operating systems that run on the x86-64 architecture

