Remember earlier this year, all the drama about AMD CPU flaws - we should follow that up. A thread.
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The moderator of /r/netsec somehow got paid over 10k to back up the research in the press, which fed into breathless press stories at the time. Did seem weird everybody involved had a financial incentive.
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This was fully disclosed in our blog post, and I stand behind everything we said. I think it's unfortunate how it played out in the press, however, I think we were one of the only voices of reason through it all. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/03/15/amd-flaws-technical-summary/ …
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Second, we weren't paid to "back up" anything to the press. We were paid for a thorough technical investigation of a piece of software. No one can pay me to lie, or hype anything and then promote it on their behalf.
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Third, you'll note that even AMD cited our public analysis of the vulnerabilities in their reporting: https://community.amd.com/community/amd-corporate/blog/2018/03/21/initial-amd-technical-assessment-of-cts-labs-research … I'm not sure how you think I should have acted differently?
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I’ll loop this into the main thread by quoting it in (and you pointed out admin priv needed etc, I agree it was a good sanity check). I think the issues were all how CTS Labs landed it.
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