Intel chips are a security flaw that exposes passwords and chances are you have exposed your passwords through a server, bank, or other computer.
Update: Intel’s security issue was also found on AMD’s Inception, where a newfound security hole affects all Ryzen and Epyc processors. See the linked article for the most up to date details. This looks huge. It’s a guarantee that every person reading this is somehow affected. It’s a hardware level problem, so there is no real fix.
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Yahtzee Party · August 11, 2023 at 1:30 pm
Guess where Intel is located?
ESFT.
AMD isn’t that bad if you’re not a gamer lamer.
That is the CPU in the offline Samizdat box.
Divemedic · August 11, 2023 at 3:05 pm
Update: Intel’s security issue was also found on AMD’s Inception, where a newfound security hole affects all Ryzen and Epyc processors.
Big Ruckus D · August 11, 2023 at 1:36 pm
A security “flaw”? Or a special secret feature request by certain interested parties? Irrespective of the underlying truth, it’s all compromised. We have sold ourselves out for convenience, and I for one am nearly at the point of going full luddite. Technology was sold to us with enormous promise, yet it is now evident that we have received all the downside of it, and a mere fraction of the upside promised. Just as it has been joked about for decades that disruptive new tech eventually results in more/better/faster access to porn, so too has it enabled ever greater amounts of laziness, irresponsibility, scams and crimes.
In hindsight, we fucked up by allowing the proliferation of all this stuff, with no real means of regulating the worst human tendencies to abuse it for personal and economic gain. That’s the big picture view, and it applies to everything, not just computers and tech.
Bad laws are written, passed, and judicially affirmed despite being bad, and then all manner of excuses get made for the failings of “the system”, when the failing is humanity itself. Too many lack the character, ethics and ability to honestly self assess and police their own behavior to keep us from abusing anything available for dubious motives. And in turn, the system that was supposed to be in place to assure punishment of those who did such things has also been corrupted from the inside by those who run it.
Thereby, we have no proper legal ball stompings being administered to the offenders, and instead the system is now used as a cudgel to persecute those whose crime is being out of favor with the controllers of the system. There will be no real culpability for this latest screw up by Intel, nor for the companies who continue to use this fatally flawed hardware in a security critical application.
When something as fundamental to a functional civilization as the concept of justice can be so badly perverted, why would any of us expect systems that exist solely for corporate profit would be run any better? They won’t be, and here we are. Consider your bank records, medical records, and anything else stupidly put in the hands of those who operate these compromised systems to be public, as sooner or later any such data are destined to be just that.
anonymous coward · August 12, 2023 at 5:36 am
>A security “flaw”? Or a special secret feature request by certain interested parties?
There is the famous interview when Linux Tovalds is asked, if he has been asked to put in secret security holes and he says “No”, while shaking his head Yes.
Jonathan · August 11, 2023 at 10:06 pm
Something this big, affecting BOTH major chipmakers – it’s highly unlikely it’s an accident!
Makes me glad I’m still using an old computer; it appears to not be affected by this.
Pat H. Bowman · August 12, 2023 at 9:14 am
A “security flaw” you say…
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