https://hackernoon.com/spectre-and-meltdown-are-just-the-beginning-99808762bcbd

There’s never just one or two isolated, one-off flaws in complex computing products. Especially with a product as complex and widely used as Intel CPUs, once one security vulnerability is exposed, many more will soon follow.

Throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, Microsoft spent years playing whackamole in an arms race against malware. At the time, security was seen by most software companies as a step in the pre-release quality assurance process, if that. When problems were found after a release, they were fixed in subsequent updates, as part of a scheduled release cycle.