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Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

My understanding is the newest AMD bug is probably not too much of an issue because it's very limited in how much data it can leak at a time and there's no way to target it at specific data so if you wanted to use it to do something like grab a password it's extremely unwieldy and not really practical.