Comment on Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades
SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 months agoI see what you’re saying. You’re assuming someone grabbed a bunch of cpus, fucked with them, then tossed them back into the box and sold them as new.
db2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Exactly, if I were a bad actor with access to the stock that’s what I’d do. I’m sure there are multiple points along the supply chain where it could potentially happen.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s true, seems like you’d need to know where they’re going though, like a ton of work just to hopefully get one machine infected that has anything on it.