Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race

Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by gech on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:57PM (#14117765)

Do Ryzen chips have this?

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by krakensden on Friday April 14, 2017 @09:31PM (#14118828)

AMD has a different but equivalent thing called PSP, or "platform security processor", which is ARM's TrustZone.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by bigbugbag on Monday April 17, 2017 @08:31PM (#14135618)

Read about Palladium and Trusted computing, basically every CPU from intel and AMD have had this or a similar feature for several years. I'm not sure about ARM.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by filoleg on Friday April 14, 2017 @06:37PM (#14117962)

Luckily no.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by turblety on Saturday April 15, 2017 @06:04AM (#14120111)

@filoleg unfortunately you are wrong. AMD has equally invasive technology called PSP (Platform Security Processor).

"The PSP is a universal computer with it's own CPU, RAM, ROM, clock etc, that can run whatever software AMD wants it to run, hidden from the user. It could load software anytime without you even noticing. AMD controls the PSP by using unique cryptographic keys which are burnt into each PSP." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13781408

You get all that for free with every new AMD processor, including their new Ryzen chip.

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