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Senators Fear Meltdown and Spectre Disclosure Gave China an Edge

Published: July 12, 2018, 4:31 p.m.

A Wednesday Congressional hearing on the Meltdown and Spectre chip vulnerabilities had all the technobabble and painful misunderstanding you might expect. But the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation also raised an important practical concern: No one informed the US government about the flaws until they were publicly disclosed at the beginning of January.