“We’ve really screwed up. There’s been this desire from the industry to be as fast as possible and secure at the same time. Spectre shows that you cannot have both. This will be a festering problem over hardware life cycles. It’s not going to change tomorrow or the day after. It’s going to take a while.

Paul Kocher as transcribed by CADE METZ and NICOLE PERLROTH, Researchers Discover Two Major Flaws in the World’s Computers