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by NorwegianDude
1434 days ago
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I see some are down voting you, but that is an option. If the CPU has a design error then you can return it in many countries. If there is a firmware fix and that fix does not affect performance to a significant degree then it's probably OK. Products should do what the marketing says they should do. |
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...which is, that they were never designed to be side-channel-resistant. As early as the 80286 Intel was saying protected mode is not a real security boundary, only a mechanism to avoid accidental errors instead of deliberate maliciousness.