[simonsays2]

Gamers dont care about obscure vulnerabilities on their gaming rigs.

So I think this is some sort of misguided hit piece against intel.

Everyone knows pcs are riddled with security flaws less obscure than this. People who run their business on cloud servers might care. Gamers though? No.

[mfatica]

They should care, considering some of these vulnerabilities are exploitable just by JavaScript, meaning merely visiting a bad website could leak sensitive information

[bartimus]

Did not know this. Thanks.

https://react-etc.net/entry/javascript-spectre-meltdown-vuln...

[simonsays2]

Lol. You are out of your league here fearmonger.

Gamers are are the 5 dollar whores of the security world, they are riddled with bugs and the dont give a crap.

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[asveikau]

I have no data, but it would have to seem to me that gamers are a tiny market compared to what Intel sells in any given year.

[ryacko]

This however does remove the benefits of ASLR.

The only two mitigations is either disabling hyper-threading or disabling JIT.

[simion314]

I bought a non K CPU (without hyper threading) , If I would have bought the K version and later Intel announces "disable the hyperthreads to be 100% safe" I would not be happy, even if I am 99.99% safe with HT on, (I personally did not enable or disable any security thing, I run the Ubuntu defaults).

IMO Intel customers should not be indifferent, what you thought you bought was not what you got latter, you lost performance and you have to do advanced stuff to disable the security patches and be unsafe

Edit: My bad, I considering buying i7 and got an i5 , I got confused(my i5 is a K CPU 6th gen).

[onli]

Which processor did you buy where the K version has hyperthreading and the non-K does not? I don't think that distinction exists in any Intel cpu generation. K just means unlocked and sometimes a higher clock, it says nothing about hyperthreading.

[jefft255]

The K thing is about overclockability, not HT.

[makomk]

Yeah. As the article says, losing hyperthreading effectively downgrades your Core i7 to a Core i5, since (depending on generation) that's one of the main differences between the two processor series.

[gsnedders]

As of the 9th generation, Core i7 doesn't have hyperthreading.

[sq_]

Is it possible they're talking about a chip where the K version had hyperthreading but the lower end of that line didn't?

Haven't kept up on Intel well enough for the last two years or so to be sure, but I seem to remember there being a generation where that happened.

[simion314]

My bad, I considering buying i7 and got an i5 , I got confused.

[NullPrefix]

Some games have internal currency or items that can be sold. I'm pretty sure there's malware targetting those items.

[znpy]

"Gamers" don't game 100% of the time. They also do normal web browsing (possibly to buy the next gaming pc).

Your argument is invalid.

[adrianN]

Intel doesn't make its profits with gamers. It's data centers that buy Intel chips by the boatload.

[paulie_a]

Gamers are not the only target market. Gamers are a fairly small market.