No they are just choosing not to roll out the fix to a known issue, which is screwing customers over on purpose (to increase profits). It’s not a matter of goodwill, they sold a product that then turned out to have a massive security flaw, and now they don’t want to fix even though they absolutely could.
victorz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m guessing it’s a balance between old products, effort, severity, etc. As we’ve learned, this is only an issue for an already infected system. 🤷♂️
Grippler@feddit.dk 5 weeks ago
Ryzen 3000 CPU are still sold as new, I even bought one six months ago, they’re no where near being classified as “old”. And this is not an only an issue for already infected systems because uninfected systems will intentionally be left vulnerable.
Auli@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Just because a store is still selling their stock doesn’t mean AND is still making them and selling them.
victorz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ah, that changes things. Not great. But still,
what I meant was that apparently only compromised systems are vulnerable to this defect.
Grippler@feddit.dk 5 weeks ago
That is not correct. Any system where this vulnerability is not patched out by AMD (which is all of gen 1, 2 and 3 CPUs) is left permanently vulnerable, regardless of whether or not they already are compromised. So if your PC is compromised in a few months for some reason, instead of being able to recover with a reinstall of your OS, your HW is now permanently compromised and would need to be thrown out…just because AMD didn’t want to patch this.