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Here is a non-shortened link. |
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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 |
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equivalently priced, owner controlled and higher performance OpenPOWER |
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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 |
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terrible* in other words you can use this to defeat hollywoods AMD PSP |
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DRM which is the true reason of existence for ME/PSP, to prevent people |
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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 |
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mainstream computer because you don't own it and everyone in the tech |
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press and so called experts says its a good thing, oh it is to "keep you |
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safe from hackers" and they pretend like it has always been this way as |
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if it wasn't just a recent change that for some reason all the major |
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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 |
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is a BMC/LOM chip and it was owner controlled. I doubt any company with |
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IP worth something wants a super insecure black box supervisor processor |
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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 |
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present on the TALOS 2 (IBM OpenBMC) and also the KCMA-D8 and KGPE-D16 |
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pre-PSP x86 boards (you can replace the crappy non-free ASUS firmware on |
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the ASMB module with the facebook version of OpenBMC which was recently |
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ported to it via crowdfunding) |