Reply to post: Re: Israeli security startup CTS-Labs

OK, deep breath, relax... Let's have a sober look at these 'ere annoying AMD chip security flaws

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Re: Israeli security startup CTS-Labs

If you find yourself frequently updating the firmware for obscure security chips, might not that be an indication that either 1) The code for those chips is not very high quality, and/or 2) The chips are doing way too many things and therefore have an overly large attack surface, and/or 3) The whole notion that computers are securable is nonsense and that we better start rethinking what we use them for and what we choose to do and not do digitally?

The idea of an off/open by default switches or jumpers for "firmware" updates seems to me to make a lot of sense.

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