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1. Matej Ľach ✅ (matejlach@social.matej-lach.me)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2019 09:22:59 EDT Matej Ľach ✅

   "Security researchers have discovered a previously unknown feature in the #Intel chipsets, which could allow an attacker to intercept data from the computer memory. "

   https://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/news/intel-visa-sa-00086-exploit-researchers-computer-data-access-2014854

   At this point, I'm not sure why bother with software security measures at all. They impede performance and are easily subverted by hardware on which they run, since CPUs appear to be made for the #NSA to exploit.

   It's time to focus the community energy on free/open hardware in a very serious way.

   1. Hattie Cat (hattiecat@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2019 18:07:51 EDT Hattie Cat

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      @matejlach No coincidence that my last 3 servers and workstation are all AMD - not that I can't say they're much better than Intel, unfortunately. Want to try OpenPOWER and hoping RISC-V will make some headway beyond the niche embedded market.