[gettingoverit]

The last time I remember, the green company did the same HTTP thing literally with their driver downloads from the website, and refused to fix it.

Makes me wonder, how much of that 4 month delay was spent deliberating with the state actor. As if there was Prism, and both companies were legally bound to allow MitM to happen, and thus don't have a bug bounty for it.

[nyanpasu64]

It doesn't smell like a state actor to me, just gross negligence. Brushing up on the Reddit comment we wrote, the MITM isn't exploitable by default, since the client will error out at the 301 redirect and leave an obvious black window on the user's desktop. Exploiting a user would require replacing the 301 redirect with a direct download, which requires the same amount of effort whether the default disclosure was broken or not.

Now if they could've started shipping a modified AMD auto update that followed redirects, that would allow them to pwn users of the updated program. But it would do nothing to people who had installed older versions, up to the version the author installed (which left a black window open indicating the downloads never completed)...