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Re:Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hou... by turbografx16 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:00PM (#16577589)
This is so fishy to me, it's so unprofessional of a security researcher. My tinfoil hat is already rattling...
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Re:Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hou... by strictnein on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:25PM (#16577838)
Nice non-sequitur. Somehow the limiting factor on the ability of someone to judge professionalism is the number of papers they've written?
Re:Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hou... by tptacek on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:28PM (#16577861)
No, I'm just noticing again that people who don't don't do a lot of vulnerability research have a lot of interesting opinions about the professional norms of people who do that work. But you never know --- maybe they do a lot of research, in which case, yes, their opinion on security research norms is a lot more interesting to me.
Re:Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hou... by allthenews on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:23PM (#16578959)
I am not a security researcher, and I do not speak for the person you are replying to, but I do believe that Intel's documented history of unethical, anticompetitive practices against AMD, for example, deliberate compiler handicapping for non Intel CPUs[1], is enough evidence to establish at least some suspicion regarding these results, especially considering the short warning given to AMD before public disclosure.

I also wonder, what is the purpose of such white hat operations if vulnerabilities are disclosed publicly without anywhere near adequate time for a fix? Isn't SOP to give more time before going public?

1.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_Compiler#Criti...

Re:Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hou... by tptacek on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @04:15PM (#16579369)
I'm not arguing about Intel. If you think this is a giant conspiracy by Intel, more power to you --- I'm not engaging further on that.
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Re:Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hou... by ilovecars2 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:27PM (#16580824)
What’s the background here?