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Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] malloc@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Intel had something like this as well (side channel attack?). I remember it because Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux kernel) ripped Intel a new one.

[โ€“] elscallr@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

They've had a couple. Spectre is the one to which you're referring, I bet.