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

[Pengcheng Xu]

Actually there’s a more memorable link that describes the matter concisely:

https://amdflaws.com

Pengcheng Xu
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> H30/03/14 10:15、Taiidan@×××.comのメール:
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> Here is a non-shortened link.
> https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/03/13/1558221/researchers-find-critical-vulnerabilities-in-amds-ryzen-and-epyc-processors-but-they-gave-the-chipmaker-only-24-hours-before-making-the-findings-public
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> All the more reason to avoid the ME/PSP garbage and instead buy the equivalently priced, owner controlled and higher performance OpenPOWER arch systems such as the libre firmware TALOS 2.
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> Pretty much someone found a bug in AMD's version of ME which *how terrible* in other words you can use this to defeat hollywoods AMD PSP DRM which is the true reason of existence for ME/PSP, to prevent people from owning and controlling their devices.
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> I can't believe the new normal is not being able to really buy a mainstream computer because you don't own it and everyone in the tech press and so called experts says its a good thing, oh it is to "keep you safe from hackers" and they pretend like it has always been this way as if it wasn't just a recent change that for some reason all the major OEM's did at the exact same time....I wonder why.
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> "The corporate sector asked for this" - MYTH - They already had it, it is a BMC/LOM chip and it was owner controlled. I doubt any company with IP worth something wants a super insecure black box supervisor processor that they don't control on every computer of theirs.
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> If you need secure remote management you can use OpenBMC which is present on the TALOS 2 (IBM OpenBMC) and also the KCMA-D8 and KGPE-D16 pre-PSP x86 boards (you can replace the crappy non-free ASUS firmware on the ASMB module with the facebook version of OpenBMC which was recently ported to it via crowdfunding)
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