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0 pointsoutworlder6y ago0 comments

> AMD are not better. They’re probably worse.

This argument makes zero sense and fails real world inspection. You see, researchers did publish the fact that it affected AMD on Spectre.

For this vulnerability, they were unable to reproduce the bug on AMD (their words). Which means that they tried.

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fwip6y ago

Intel and AMD don't have to share the same bugs for AMD to be worse.

Consider you've got two sets of vulnerabilities: [1, 2, 3] and [2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8].

If I label set 1 Intel, and set 2 AMD, then you can see how doing your research on Intel first will make it seem like Intel has 3x the vulnerabilities as AMD - even though it actually has half.

xfer6y ago

By your logic both of the sets could be infinite and we will never find out who has the more vulnerabilities.

fwip6y ago

Possibly.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsoutworlder6y ago0 comments

> AMD are not better. They’re probably worse.

This argument makes zero sense and fails real world inspection. You see, researchers did publish the fact that it affected AMD on Spectre.

For this vulnerability, they were unable to reproduce the bug on AMD (their words). Which means that they tried.

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fwip6y ago

Intel and AMD don't have to share the same bugs for AMD to be worse.

Consider you've got two sets of vulnerabilities: [1, 2, 3] and [2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8].

If I label set 1 Intel, and set 2 AMD, then you can see how doing your research on Intel first will make it seem like Intel has 3x the vulnerabilities as AMD - even though it actually has half.

xfer6y ago

By your logic both of the sets could be infinite and we will never find out who has the more vulnerabilities.

fwip6y ago

Possibly.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse