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A comment on AMD's Firmware TPMs Vulnerable to Hardware Attacks, Defeating Disk Encryption. Parent comment

Re:AMD's Firmware TPMs Vulnerable to Hardware Attacks, Defea... by yarg on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:11PM (#35793440)
Very little.

It's an idealogical flamewar, that in most cases is without impact.

The binary format of the log file still seems to me to be a bad idea - it introduces corruptibility and complexity to a vital service that should be simple and uncorruptible.

If a failing system starts to do weird things, plain text append only logging is preferable.

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Re:AMD's Firmware TPMs Vulnerable to Hardware Attacks, Defea... by russfink on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:36PM (#35797587)
It’s a problem because people do not wish to learn new paradigms. Put me in that camp - took months to debug a 90 second hang and work around it. Of course, fast boot owes to its parallelization.
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