On 2018-01-08 04:48 PM, Andrew Paolucci via talk wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I believe from what is bouncing around the internet the upcoming line of > Intel Processors this year will still have the physical bug and the software > patch is seen as the "fix" for the foreseeable future. I was hoping for a > refund/return program similar to the Pentium floating point bug. If you are > willing to keep supporting Intel after this snafu I don't see a point in > waiting unless it's for new tech, not secure tech. AMD is a solid option > moving forward though, no hidden network stack or Minx OS onboard.
Sadly, AMD also has a separate chip with its own OS, and it has a buffer overflow flaw (that is supposed to be fixed soon with bios/uefi updates): http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jan/12 More general write up here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/security-flaw-in-amds-secure-chip-on-chip-processor-disclosed-online/ --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
