Seeing how there are all these news articles now on the net on this issue with primarily the two critical vulnerabilities nicknamed 'Spectre' and 'Meltdown', I can't help but think how helpless the world is, because at the end of the day, the news outlets seems to me to be more like entertainment than journalism, otherwise I would have wanted to see computer security to be be taken more seriously throughout the whole year, at least on some editorial level, so that there aren't just the occasional horrific event popping up.
And then I think that once reporting of computer security issues becomes this shallow, so as to being more of a public spectacle, I think that also makes the journalism that's is already there non objective, once a journalist makes general statements that maybe seems ok to the journalist there and then, but things considered, would be erroneous when simplifications and generalizations end up being poignant messages that dulls the broader range of issues with anything technical. I suppose that one type of flawed critical thinking would be to arrive at a conclusion of sorts, that dictate that something in particular is flawed (like a known vulnerability in a computer chip), when perhaps it is the underlying feature(s) that can be said to allow catastrophic failures in computer security to exist in the first place. A parallel to this idea of there being a horrible set of features in the first place, would be Adobe's Flash platform, which afaik is so badly tarnished with regard to what I understand as being an ever re-occurring events with 'remote execution vulnerabilities' in the code in the Flash plug-in.
So with regard to the Flash plugin.. some time back, I followed the advice of experts and finally un-installed Flash for good.
I wish anything related to computer software and hardware, was better compartmentalized, and having a perfectly good foundation to have computers running off that. And Linux wouldn't be that kind of software for me, which iirc, is known for working with usability, rather than security. When I one time had an interest in trying out a few Linux distros, the people on IRC seemed to be more like fanboys instead of sensible people, and sort of patting themselves on the back for knowing how to install stuff and set file flags, without really knowing how things work in the kernel. And with Linus living in USA, I feel I can't even trust the management, but that is just me. It didn't help when Linus some years ago was said to have sort of joked in relation to a serious question directed at him, in which it was asked something about if he had ever been approached by the US government to solicit cooperation from him or something like that, and then the man had said 'no', but nodded 'yes'. Not something to joke about.