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Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades (www.engadget.com)

submitted 3 months ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Intel breathes a sigh of relief as the spotlight moves off of them for a beat.

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[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I see what you're saying. You're assuming someone grabbed a bunch of cpus, fucked with them, then tossed them back into the box and sold them as new.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, if I were a bad actor with access to the stock that's what I'd do. I'm sure there are multiple points along the supply chain where it could potentially happen.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

That's true, seems like you'd need to know where they're going though, like a ton of work just to hopefully get one machine infected that has anything on it.