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‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections (www.wired.com)
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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Similar vulnerability threat as the Intel ME bug. Annoying for security-critical applications where you start worrying about hardware security, but virtually no real-world threat. Might be useful for users wishing to disable security processors though.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately PSP is required for x86 core initialisation. I'm not sure if this can actually be bypassed.