Intel Fucks Up Jump Conditional Code Cache, New ucode

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Wed Nov 13 17:11:55 PST 2019


On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 06:20:49PM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> On 11/13/19, Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com> wrote:
> >> Users flock to AMD.
> >
> > Is AMD really better?
> > I suspect it is the same garbage as Intel.
> 
> AMD's price:performance is compelling right now,
> and enjoying underdog rising.
> 
> It's seen less of the exploit parade than Intel has lately.
> That doesn't mean AMD is any better regarding
> potential vulnerabilities.
> 
> Given that AMD (and Intel, IBM, ARM, Qualcomm, Broadcom, etc)
> are all closed HW garbage, there are surely entire classes
> and vast mounds of garbage waiting within them to be security
> advisoried and exploited, were they only to be opened up.
> They have refused to do that for longer than most users
> have been alive.
> 
> So at this point, people would be better off ignoring
> them, and coming together to create something
> new for the world...
> 
> #OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenAudit
> 
> That will be compelling to userbase and markets,
> a new class of open underdogs rising.


I vote for grarpamp and Juan as #OpenAudit inspector generals :)



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