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AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, security feature vanishes AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silent when pressed about the change (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Maybe Intel isn't the only company burning from within...

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    AMD also recently dropped Linux support from the Vivado free tier. Although the support they had before was really bad

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    AMDGPU has also had major issues since kernel 6.18 that they (AMD, not the linux kernel team, they know) refuse to acknowledge.

    There might be a Linus rant about that one soon...

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    • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I didn't know memory was ever encrypted. I mean why would it be?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah I don't get why you'd want that unless someone not only had physical access to your device but was unable to extract data through any far easier ways. The only use case I can think of is in enterprise.

    Then again, I'm just going off my complete inability to conceptualize how memory encryption might be useful in consumer CPU's.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    If I had my way, everyone's drives and ram and whatever would be encrypted from top to bottom with extremely strong keys that only the user had access to. Nobody needs to have access to your stuff except you, and it doesnt matter if you are the most law-abiding citizen in the world who does nothing but eat bread and read the news paper every day, your privacy is sanctamount (whether you agree with this or not). Medical records, bank statements, tax records, private journals, etc. are just a few examples of data that mundane people with "nothing to hide" deserve to have protected to the nines.

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    • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Who would want memory encryption for the hoi polloi to be quietly removed and what colour hat would you think they might wear.

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    [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    Riot in the streets. (/S)

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    But for real. Technofascists will keep making everything worse until there are consequences. Riot in the streets would certainly send that message. Though there are so many things worth rioting over.

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    • [+] 1 point 3 months ago
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    [–] -2 points 3 months ago*

    Duplicate of https://lemmy.world/post/48226372

    Tom's Slopware delenda est

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