Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated]

From	William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups	alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.sys.intel
Subject	Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated]
Date	2017-11-23 19:39 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2017-11-23, root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote:
> Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>> 	This is not as bad as painted by alarmists.
>> 	Most private systems are not at risk.
>> 	MS has a tool to check your Intel processors.
>> 	Below here are the URLs for the real story and
>> for the tools to check your system.
>>
>
> Two of my systems report vulnerabilty but I can't find clear instructions
> from the URL below. One of the systems was built up from an MSI motherboard
> and the MSI website has no mention of SA-00086.
>
>
>> For more information refer to the SA-00086 Detection Tool Guide or the 
>> Intel security advisory Intel-SA-00086 at the following link:
>><https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00086&languageid=en-fr>

If it is just the firmware, then I would assume that the kernel firmware in
linux could handle it. Or is that not true?

And what can the manufacturers (who intel points you to to fix this) do abuot
it? And with many many computers not made by big long lived manufacturers does
this mean that Intel is just leaving most machines out to dry?


>>
>>          ==================================
>> 	bliss
>>

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PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2017-11-22 22:42 +0100
  Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2017-11-22 13:45 -0800
    Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2017-11-23 03:11 +0100
  Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] Doomsdrzej <dre@do.om> - 2017-11-22 17:29 -0500
    Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2017-11-22 15:04 -0800
      Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2017-11-22 23:52 +0000
        Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2017-11-22 16:03 -0800
      Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] Caver1 <caver1@inthemud.org> - 2017-11-22 19:38 -0500
        Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-11-23 02:55 +0000
          Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2017-11-23 06:27 -0600
          Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] Doomsdrzej <dre@do.om> - 2017-11-23 08:21 -0500
      Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] Cornelis Tromp <nobody@holland.remailer.nl> - 2017-11-23 02:48 +0000
      Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2017-11-23 18:30 +0000
        Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2017-11-23 19:39 +0000
          Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2017-11-24 02:30 +0000
            Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-11-24 09:18 +0000
              Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2017-11-25 04:02 +0100
                Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware[Updated] ChrisMac <ChrisMac.14706178@hardwarebanter.com> - 2017-12-08 13:02 +0000
    Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware [Updated] Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2017-11-23 02:13 +0100

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