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yeah the intel response page is filled with people claiming intel is evil for even mentioning amd https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16064545 https://news.yc
by wnevets 9y ago
yeah the intel response page is filled with people claiming intel is evil for even mentioning amd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16064545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16064545
- noncoml 9y agoIt's a developing story, but from the information we have so far, it does look like Intel involving AMD is a disingenuous since AMD processors are not affected by the most serious of the issues.
- mtkd 9y agoIt's too early to say which is ultimately the most real-world serious. From the Spectre note (which does affect AMD): In addition to violating process isolation boundaries using native code, Spectre attacks can also be used to violate browser sandboxing, by mounting them via portable JavaScript code. We wrote a JavaScript program that successfully reads data from the address space of the browser process running it. How quickly are we going to see attacks targeting BTC/ETH wallets, apps etc. on clients and cloud hosted exchanges?
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- alanfalcon 9y agoHardware wallet or bust right now, right? Use a private key that has never touched the internet?
- tiles 9y agoTo be fair, the Intel post alludes to collaborating with AMD/ARM on mitigating Spectre, but userspace memory leaking is wholly separate from kernel memory leaking (Meltdown, which only affects Intel processors).