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minus-squareFades@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down25·1 month agoResearchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades
minus-squareXanis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-21 month agotldr: Flaw can give a hacker access to your computer only if they have already bypassed most of the computer’s security. This means continue not going to sketchy sites. Continue not downloading that obviously malicious attachment. Continue not being a dumbass. Proceed as normal. Because if a hacker got that deep your system is already fucked.
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month agoIt’s more serious than normal because if your PC ever gets owned, a wipe and reinstall will not remove the exploit. “Nissim sums up that worst-case scenario in more practical terms: “You basically have to throw your computer away.””
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoOkay, so what gets permanently “owned?” The BIOS on the motherboard, the CPU? is the GPU also hosed?
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThe CPU is hosed. I assume the throw away is in reference to laptops or mini PCs where the CPU isn’t socketed.
minus-squarearefxlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoYeah the Intel issue is definitely a bigger problem. Imo.
minus-squarearefxlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month agoI’m not that worried about it effecting me lol, i would be more concerned about my intel cpu dying, especially since it’s been around for decades.
Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades
tldr: Flaw can give a hacker access to your computer only if they have already bypassed most of the computer’s security.
This means continue not going to sketchy sites.
Continue not downloading that obviously malicious attachment.
Continue not being a dumbass.
Proceed as normal.
Because if a hacker got that deep your system is already fucked.
It’s more serious than normal because if your PC ever gets owned, a wipe and reinstall will not remove the exploit.
“Nissim sums up that worst-case scenario in more practical terms: “You basically have to throw your computer away.””
Okay, so what gets permanently “owned?” The BIOS on the motherboard, the CPU? is the GPU also hosed?
The CPU is hosed. I assume the throw away is in reference to laptops or mini PCs where the CPU isn’t socketed.
Yeah the Intel issue is definitely a bigger problem. Imo.
I agree.
I’m not that worried about it effecting me lol, i would be more concerned about my intel cpu dying, especially since it’s been around for decades.