Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new AMD CPU weakness?

2018-03-17 Thread Wols Lists
On 17/03/18 13:53, Fast Turtle wrote: > So ask > youself, why in hell they needed more then 4M? I could see 8M being a > selling point but 64M - hell the first computer I build only had 16M > (that was a 386 system). Because buying new 8Mb chips is expensive, and 64Mb is cheaper? Seriously, newer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new AMD CPU weakness?

2018-03-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 9:53 AM, Fast Turtle wrote: > > All this does is makes damn sure I will not buy any used hardware > since you can change embed into the UEFI firmware what ever you want - To be fair that is hardly anything new either. Sure, this particular attack is new, but the concept h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new AMD CPU weakness?

2018-03-17 Thread Fast Turtle
Main issue is you need "PHYSICAL"access to carry these attacks out. It's that god damn simple. If they can physically access the system, it doesn't matter how good the security it because "THEY' own it. All this does is makes damn sure I will not buy any used hardware since you can change embed in