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January 18 2018BUSTED: RECENT INTEL PROCESSOR (MELTDOWN) SCANDAL INVOLVES INTEL PROCESSORS ONLY, SANDY BRIDGE FORWARDSpectre is such a small problem I would not worry about it on an AMD or ARM platform. I would worry about it on an Intel platform though. They released to the public a lie to cover for the fact that Intel's Vpro core was an intentional back door for the NSA. The memory vulnerability, (if it exists at all) is a sideshow, and ARM and AMD were back stabbed with claims they had the same problems just to either help Intel, or cover for the fact that the vulnerability was intrinsic to hardware, and specifically the separate Vpro processor that was onboard every Intel chip from Sandy Bridge forward. If you want to be realistc about things, the Spectre bug is simply a no show on AMD and ARM, because it is simply too hard to do to them for it to mean anything, and AMD and ARM are not affected by the Meltdown bug AT ALL.In 2011 I outlined the problem in a report titled "Is Intel's Sandy Bridge on a road to nowhere?" I pointed out the problem - a second on chip processor that was always on, even when the power was turned off, and this processor could clandestinely switch on any part of the computer when it received a remote command. Intel marketed this as "making the administrator's job easier" because an administrator could install updates and get data while all employees were at home asleep, and everyone would simply arrive to work the next day with everything updated because even if their power was turned off, their computers could receive updates anyway.PROBLEM: All encryption keys any system had were held on this second processor, which was not adequately secured AT ALL from the outside world. It allowed a total highway into anyone's system, and I said at that time that the only real reason why this would be done would be to allow intelligence agencies access whenever they wanted, - access no one could stop because the encryption keys were right there for the intelligence agencies to use. Sandy Bridge, and all processors forward,A TOTAL OF 1,487 different models of Intel chips had this right up to every Intel chip made today.So everything was fine and dandy, as long as only a few ex NSA people who could be acceptably contained tried to spread the word on sites like this one and no one got the NSA tools that are used to access these processors. After all, if it was only me blowing the whistle in 2011, they could just blow it off. PROBLEM: About 8 months ago, someone inside the NSA released all these tools to the public in a "wiki" type release, and now, 8 months later hacker Joe is playing NSA and the NSA simply does not want that. This is the ONLY REASON, AND I MEAN ONLY reason why the "bug" was "mysteriously found" by some hoax fraud jackass who "read thousands and thousands of pages of Intel processor manuals, and found it". YEAH RIGHT, BULLSHIT.So I knew, from early 2011, that everything from now on had to be AMD.
Seems legit.
This is so much more convenient for everyone.
Presumably "code names" for "super secret" plans would be randomly assigned
"you really think we would be so stupid to name a secret project by a name giving away the purpose?"
I don't find it plausible that the company was randomly named, "Intel."
and the other one (of now many) "no such company."
I have a friend who calls once a week to complain about everything. As she is an old woman with only two cats, the “conversations” are never less than an hour. My contribution is an occasional grunt while I read Bellgab. I certainly hope that some NSA bastard has to listen to it.
I certainly hope that some NSA bastard has to listen to it.
That "God Mode" is some freaky shit guys:
After years of knowing it's there, and seeing it vividly portrayed in cinema, it's surreal to actually watch it being done.Thanks, Hillary!
BTW - this was a "FUNCTION" that was hard coded into the chips - from Israel. (Everything from the Pentium II forward was designed in Israel.)
Now, the same team of cybersecurity researchers who discovered original Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities have uncovered 7 new transient execution attacks affecting 3 major processor vendors—Intel, AMD, ARM.While some of the newly-discovered transient execution attacks are mitigated by existing mitigation techniques for Spectre and Meltdown, others are not.
The researchers [...] have found that "a weakness in the address speculation of Intel’s proprietary implementation of the memory subsystem" reveals memory layout data, making other attacks like Rowhammer much easier to carry out.The researchers also examined Arm and AMD processor cores, but found they did not exhibit similar behavior."We have discovered a novel microarchitectural leakage which reveals critical information about physical page mappings to user space processes," the researchers explain."The leakage can be exploited by a limited set of instructions, which is visible in all Intel generations starting from the 1st generation of Intel Core processors, independent of the OS and also works from within virtual machines and sandboxed environments."
“This newly disclosed attack bypasses all known mitigation mechanisms implemented in response to Spectre and Meltdown,”
