As someone who has dealt with a lot of upper management, I can say that they love articles like this coming from one of their infrastructure providers. It gives them a feel-good feeling, and probably avoids unnecessary emails to their support staff on whether they've done anything to mitigate the risk.
On a smaller scale, these "I'm looking at it" emails are also good for internal problems (accidental downtime, discovered bug, etc) for the exact same reason.
The real genius was OpenBSD adding microcode updates they should have had for 10 years, and on top we get a smug Theo email about how it's really not even very much affected except when using AVX (duh).
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Cloudflare never, ever misses an opportunity to loudly advertise what they are doing.
As someone who has dealt with a lot of upper management, I can say that they love articles like this coming from one of their infrastructure providers. It gives them a feel-good feeling, and probably avoids unnecessary emails to their support staff on whether they've done anything to mitigate the risk.
On a smaller scale, these "I'm looking at it" emails are also good for internal problems (accidental downtime, discovered bug, etc) for the exact same reason.
The real genius was OpenBSD adding microcode updates they should have had for 10 years, and on top we get a smug Theo email about how it's really not even very much affected except when using AVX (duh).
Sure but they didn’t do anything here but apply a microcode patch…
Heck they are taking attention away from the original authors and what shining a spotlight at their hardware partner’s flaw?
Because this is an advert and they want to show people that they are aware & are doing something about it
Yeah, they do that. Just look at their pages when a website using them goes down. Cloudflare never misses an opportunity to advertise themselves.