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Re:Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hou... by chrismorgan on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:18AM (#16582751)
A really fun interpretation of it is AMD doing it themselves, deliberately badly, so that they can come off as the wounded party that actually have really good hardware. Risky, but probably not impossible to carry off.
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Re:Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hou... by tripzilch on Friday March 16, 2018 @10:53AM (#16601061)
While fun, it would also mean they would be publicly disclosing vulnerabilities in their own systems and then deliberately withholding the patch, just to put on this shpiel in order to appear as the underdog?
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Re:Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hou... by chrismorgan on Friday March 16, 2018 @11:02PM (#16605397)
Confirmation that the vulnerabilities are legitimate pretty much writes this one off. At the time I wrote it this wasn’t entirely clear, though it seemed probable (though even then they could have been overstated).
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