Researchers warn that a bug in AMD’s chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer—and that it has persisted in the company’s processors for decades.
It’s normal white-hat practice. White hat hacker ethics require you to contact the company and give them lots of chances to fix it.
But if they refuse to fix it or inform people of the vulnerability you broad-band it to the world because it’s the only way to force the company’s hand.
It sounds like you basically need to have root access to the computer to take advantage of this. Like if someone can use this your system is already totally pwned. But, like, if a spy or something gets access to a machine they could load this and then it’d be in the system with no way to find it or dig it out.
well why’d you tell everyone, now somebody is going to try to exploit it!
It’s normal white-hat practice. White hat hacker ethics require you to contact the company and give them lots of chances to fix it.
But if they refuse to fix it or inform people of the vulnerability you broad-band it to the world because it’s the only way to force the company’s hand.
It sounds like you basically need to have root access to the computer to take advantage of this. Like if someone can use this your system is already totally pwned. But, like, if a spy or something gets access to a machine they could load this and then it’d be in the system with no way to find it or dig it out.