> And, well, you may well have never heard of attacks that would be mitigated by these technologies, but I have. Firmware-based attacks have existed for over a

> And, well, you may well have never heard of attacks that would be mitigated by these technologies, but I have. Firmware-based attacks have existed for over a decade This is a pure cash grab by Lenovo and AMD, not about mitigating attacks. If this were about platform security for the benefit of the owner, it would not be permanent, nor enabled by default. All this does is create more e-waste and nuke resale value for Lenovo systems and Ryzen CPUs. Lenovo has been increasingly slimy for years now (I guess everyone forgets that they've been caught distributing spyware in their products multiple times?) and this is just yet another stop on the road. I hope Lenovo and AMD both get their asses sued.