Yes, I want to be positive and look at a bright future. Everybody is now talking about the Meltdown and Spectre bugs (here the official site). I think that these Hardware bugs at the end will help improve the security of our IT systems. But we should not underestimate the pain that they could cause, even if it is too early to say this for certain since patches and countermeasures could be found for all systems and CPUs or, at the opposite, there could appear unexpected exploits.

The central issue is that IT and IT Security in particular, depend crucially on the correctness of the behaviour of the Hardware, first of all of the CPUs. If the foundation of the IT pillar is weak, sooner or later something will break. Let’s then hope that the Meltdown and Spectre bugs will help design more secure IT Hardware and, in the long run, improve IT Security as a whole.