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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 58943" data-source="post: 707146">You can bet this was a purposeful hole. Some experts are saying if it wasn&#039;t purposeful then the engineers involved are either totally blind, ignorant or incredibly incompetent but probably would have to be all three. Almost nobody believes these guys are, so the only logical conclusion is - this is purposeful. I wouldn&#039;t doubt for a minute if it wasn&#039;t purposeful and probably one of the most important techniques for intelligence gathering available.If you &#039;carefully&#039; look around, observe, and read documents you&#039;ll see hints that they knew of this. For example when Greenwald stored Snowden documents on encrypted AWS servers, then he was advised by consultants to move his stuff off AWS the NSA blew a gasket about that move saying they needed to &#039;disrupt advice such as this in the future&#039;.. I&#039;m guessing here, but i suspect they wanted it on AWS so they could Meltdown capture the VM contents Greenwald was using on his VM. I&#039;ve seen other things and have read between the lines to suggest it. Jake Williams (Security Researcher) says the probability this was a purposeful backdoor is near 100%.Anyway, as we roll out Meltdown patches, we&#039;re seeing performance hits from 3% up to 50%. It depends on a lot of factors, but I ran into a machine hitting 50% performance impact yesterday and we&#039;re going to recommend machine replacement..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 58943, post: 707146"] You can bet this was a purposeful hole. Some experts are saying if it wasn't purposeful then the engineers involved are either totally blind, ignorant or incredibly incompetent but probably would have to be all three. Almost nobody believes these guys are, so the only logical conclusion is - this is purposeful. I wouldn't doubt for a minute if it wasn't purposeful and probably one of the most important techniques for intelligence gathering available. If you 'carefully' look around, observe, and read documents you'll see hints that they knew of this. For example when Greenwald stored Snowden documents on encrypted AWS servers, then he was advised by consultants to move his stuff off AWS the NSA blew a gasket about that move saying they needed to 'disrupt advice such as this in the future'.. I'm guessing here, but i suspect they wanted it on AWS so they could Meltdown capture the VM contents Greenwald was using on his VM. I've seen other things and have read between the lines to suggest it. Jake Williams (Security Researcher) says the probability this was a purposeful backdoor is near 100%. Anyway, as we roll out Meltdown patches, we're seeing performance hits from 3% up to 50%. It depends on a lot of factors, but I ran into a machine hitting 50% performance impact yesterday and we're going to recommend machine replacement.. [/QUOTE]

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