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> That doesn't protect you all that much. While this particular flaw seems from current reports to be Intel specific, some of the past ones affected AMD and Arm
by dvdkhlng 8y ago
> That doesn't protect you all that much. While this particular flaw seems from current reports to be Intel specific, some of the past ones affected AMD and Arm designs also, and maybe there are some AMD/Arm/other specific attacks waiting to be found too.
I think this is called "security through minority" which is a special case of "security through obscurity" :)
- phkahler 8y agoDont forget about meltdown.
- dfrage 8y agoOnly AMD has avoided Meltdown, both ARM in some CPUs, and IBM, both POWER and mainframe, have Meltdown bugs.
- rbanffy 8y agoDecreasing the likelihood of being compromised is still one layer of security. It's only bad if you depend on it.
- NullPrefix 8y agoThat was the case with the whole "MacOS doesn't have viruses" thing.