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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by hnthrowaway0315 on Sunday January 16, 2022 @04:06PM (#29960045)
> You could permanently kill an entire datacenter with that within seconds

Damn I bet someone perhaps a state player or a well financed group is able to do this, can't wait to see this happen...But how does anyone burn it remotely?

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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by NablaSquaredG on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:06AM (#29964419)
By finding a bug in the PSP.

Heck, bugs like Meltdown and Spectre were found. And exploits on the PSP have already been demonstrated, see here https://github.com/PSPReverse/amd-sp-glitch

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