About time someone looked at AMD's "security". https://amdflaws.com FUD warning though: this isn't some "everyone with an AMD is doomed" scenario. This mostly affects those depending on advanced security features, stuff like fTPM (which was always suspect IMO).
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In other words, if you're a consumer and you don't already have your computer pwned by malware, you're probably fine. You need an entry point in order to exploit this kind of stuff: physical access and/or local code execution.
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Replying to @FrancescoPonzin @marcan42
And this "masterkey" thing seems scary enough
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Replying to @FrancescoPonzin
You should be more concerned about the many consumer motherboard vendors shipping anything from vulnerable drivers to blatant kernel backdoors for... stuff like RGB LED support. Nobody audits that crap.
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Is that crap mandatory or can I stay away from that by using mi OS (mostly linux) drivers instead?
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Replying to @FrancescoPonzin
Linux should be fine, it's just all their windows turds that are terribad.
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I guess you can just avoid installing their "drivers" and just use the default ones that Windows provides
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Yeah, probably. As long as Windows Update doesn't pull in any dodgy stuff automatically.
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