CPU bug wars update: the latest attack against AMD CPUs just leaks memory access patterns. This is basically inherent in how caches work. It's not even a speculation attack. Intel still has the lead in designing CPUs that give up all their secrets *by design* in speculation.
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Replying to @marcan42
You think Intel DESIGNED their chips to cause security problems and lose them sales? Come the fuck on.
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Replying to @blakeyrat
I think intel DESIGNED their chips under the mantra that anything that happens in speculation doesn't matter and no transistor shall be "wasted" on that, and any engineers who brought up security concerns were ignored.
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Replying to @marcan42
You realize that nobody, nobody anywhere, brought up security concerns about these features until they'd been in every CPU for like over a decade, right? It's not JUST Intel that missed it. Either don't turn an "oops" into "Intel engineers are evil monsters!" Ridiculous.
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And then they just kept mum and let it happen for years and years.
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Replying to @blakeyrat @kc8apf
That's called working in a corporate environment, yes. When management doesn't care, there's nothing you can do.
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They could have done the exact same thing the security researchers who exposed this eventually did. If these mysterious engineers existed, which there's still zero evidence for, because they're part of a conspiracy theory.
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That's called breaking an NDA, which gets you fired and/or sued. Seriously, have you ever worked for a BigCo? This is all normal.
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