https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180106/10334238946/nsa-denies-prior-knowledge-meltdown-spectre-exploits-claims-it-would-never-harm-companies-withholding-vulns.shtml

News surfaced late last week indicating everything about computing is fucked. Two critical flaws with zero perfect fixes -- affecting millions of processors -- were exposed by security researchers. Patches have been deployed and more are on their way, but even the best fixes seem to guarantee a noticeable slowdown in processing speed.

The government has stepped up to say that, for once, it's not involved in making computing less safe.