Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol

Re:Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol by pixelpoet on Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:39PM (#22261227)

Intel seem to be paying a hefty price lately for some security shortcuts they made in hardware compared to AMD (who paid the opportunity cost; security measures don't happen by accident, and they do slow you down).

Good security is getting rarer all the time, and therefore expensive; I think a lot of people would be interested in having a small truly secure system (say, for storing your cryptocurrency keys), and as I wrote, I sincerely don't know where to practically begin with this.

Is it commercially available? Concretely speaking, what can I buy, and what software should I run on it?

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Re:Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol by robocat on Thursday February 06, 2020 @06:04PM (#22261396)

> Intel seem to be paying a hefty price lately

But the gains they made have surely outweighed any current hit? Also I haven’t perceived that much of a hit (although I’m not in the industry): are they selling more CPUs? AMD have an opportunity, but I haven’t seen that translated into sales to hyperscalers or consumers (beyond what they were achieving anyway).

Same as Microsoft knowingly for decades chose functionality before security - with the cooperation of plenty of customers that knew better.

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