Re:AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch prediction
by djsumdog on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:01PM
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Stallman's argument is a good one against the Intel ME issues, but I don't think it apples to Meltdown.
This is a specific side-channel attack in a super complicated system. Even if we had OSS x86/64 processors, this more similar to the protocol issues found in openssl.
This is a specific side-channel attack in a super complicated system. Even if we had OSS x86/64 processors, this more similar to the protocol issues found in openssl.