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Re:Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors by boomboomsubban on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @08:41PM (#16057608)
It creates a huge attack vector on most computers that the user has almost no control over. Even if Intel are completely uninvolved, some intelligence agency will try to exploit it.
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Re:Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors by JdeBP on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:19PM (#16065277)
The claim at hand, however, was that the NSA made Intel include it.
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Re:Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors by boomboomsubban on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:18PM (#16065827)
No, the claim being made is that ME is being added as a feature, with a hyperbolic version of the other argument tacked on. Whether they were forced to include it doesn't matter, the way they included it benefits the intelligence agencies.
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