SHE FOUND THE FLAW IN JUNE. INTEL ASKED FOR SILENCE UNTIL JANUARY. SHE HAD SIGNED THE COORDINATED DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT.

Dr. Amara Chen discovered a major vulnerability in Intel processors in June 2017, which allowed malicious code to read protected memory. Despite signing a coordinated disclosure agreement with Intel and granting multiple extension requests, she faced a seven-month wait while three other research teams independently uncovered the same flaw.