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>As always, AMD strongly encourages its customers to consistently undertake safe computing practices, examples of which include: not clicking on unrecognized hy
by Decabytes 9y ago
>As always, AMD strongly encourages its customers to consistently undertake safe computing practices, examples of which include: not clicking on unrecognized hyperlinks, following strong password protocols, using secure networks, and accepting regular software updates.
Ummm none of these things will stop this attack.
- foxylad 9y agoExcept they just said this attack is virtually impossible (certainly hasn't been demonstrated) on AMD. So I interpret this as general advice.
- noncoml 9y agoIs the JS PoC for Spectre not applicable to AMD then?
- molyss 9y agoI think Spectre and the JS PoC are actually the ones applicable to any modern processors (including AMDs, ARMs and probably most other chip vendors). Looks like the mitigations for these will be directly included in the browser. EDIT : I don't even think we know of a way to fix Spectre in the kernel...
- cryptonector 9y agohttps://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/3/780 https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/3/780
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- ibotty 9y agoNo, that's only for variant two. Spectre is also variant one.
- jpatokal 9y agoThere are 3 attacks, two of which AMD claims to be immune/virtually immune to, and one which they do admit to being applicable.
- coryfklein 9y agoThese are all ways of preventing malicious code from running on your system. If you're not running code that abuses the new attack vectors, then you are effectively stopping the attack.