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Re:AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a... by young_unixer on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:42AM (#24418386)
If I want to protect against the NSA I'm worried about them using Intel ME, AMD PSP and other black boxes to hack me. I don't worry that much about them sneaking into my data center or house and physically changing my hardware.

The security you lose from having a black box in your CPU is much greater than the security you win by virtue of being (theoretically) protected against unsigned bootloaders and rogue hardware.

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Re:AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a... by sedatk on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:40PM (#24425010)
I merely provided NSA as an example of how advanced attack vectors might go unnoticed for decades.
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