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Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not happy with what's happening and I know that corporations are money making evil machines.

But to say that chip makers have no incentive at all to secure their hardware is quite the hyperbole.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough, probably was hyperbole :) But performance does seem to be a higher priority than security; they can always spin PR after the next exploit, after all, users already have the CPU in their system, they've made their money; what are users really gonna do if an issue comes up after they've bought their box?

[–] Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What they will do is not buy from that company again.

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but we live in cpu monopoly. Intel and Amd Both companies put backdoors and all sort of shit in their cpus.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We don't live in CPU monopoly. Arm and SoCs are also in the game.

[–] Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Im out of the loop with those. Are Arm and socs viable alternative for home computing?

Last time I checked I could not build a pc with Arm. Post above is right intel and amd are dominating home user market.

I have a macbook air m1 and this arm chips is imo just amazing. No fan no issues, fast as fuck. Id like to build a pc with arm. Maybe when Linux and windows show more support for arm64?

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, for desktops? I don't know. I was referring to macbooks and mac minis.

[–] dack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Linux supports ARM64 very well. Windows also has had ARM support for a quite a while. The main obstacles are 3rd party binary software (particularly on Windows) and lack of available hardware.