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Intel Hit by a Devastating Data Breach, Chip Designs, Code, Possible Backdoors Leaked

I always thought the revealed cpu vulnerabilities were targeted at hurting Intel, and now this has happened, fuel is added to the fire. Intel has peed someone off and they not relenting.
 
Don't you slander jeff bezos and bill gates.

Jeff Bezos is in a different billionaire class than ol' Billy Gates.

*dodges Microsoft assasins, applies for political Asylum at Amazon.com*
 
Almost certainly the "Intel123" password stems from an arbitrary corporate policy that any archives shared with third parties are password-protected so that, in the case of such a leak, there isn't a single password that can access all the archives.

Of course, because keeping track of a billion different passwords is a fucking nightmare, the end result is predictably that everyone uses the same stupidly weak password for everything. So the policy, like pretty much all policies that involve passwords, ends up having no effect besides pissing people off.



People are still getting triggered by Internet comments about their imaginary sky deities in 2020? Wow.



What a moronic "argument". How many functional quantum computers are there, again?
Ppl need to use stuff like lastpass or another password generator if they aren't creative enough to come up with good passwords :)
 
Jeff Bezos is in a different billionaire class than ol' Billy Gates.

*dodges Microsoft assasins, applies for political Asylum at Amazon.com*
You have struck paths with the wrong crowd fella. The road ahead is not where you are going.
 
Bezos isn't as bad as gates.. ec2 is more secure than windows and that's saying that while plugging my nose
 
Ppl need to use stuff like lastpass or another password generator if they aren't creative enough to come up with good passwords :)
Yeah but even their RND instructuons are flawed, so it's a moot point.

Bezos isn't as bad as gates.. ec2 is more secure than windows and that's saying that while plugging my nose
You can buy windows from Amazon but you can't buy Amazon from Windows.
 
What a dumpster fire.

The weird thing is that the world at large doesn't seem to care. It's just us techs that seem to have noticed this but outside of us the major news outlets seem oblivious.
 
Ppl need to use stuff like lastpass or another password generator if they aren't creative enough to come up with good passwords :)
Or better yet... BitWarden. It's open source!
 
Nice. Now I'm kind of happy I don't have any Intel stock anymore. Also, I'm curious if the next Lenovo X2x0 will have an AMD option. Not a tinfoil thing, I don't have any strategic data, but AMD's laptop stuff seems to be getting reasonably good so maybe it's time.
 
I have a friend who is very paranoid. They were wondering if you receive orders to implement RATs or other malicious tools under the disguise of otherwise popular and legitimate software.
Never got any such requests, unless you consider adware/toolbars as such. Not interested. And „orders“ lol i live in Germany, i actually have rights
 
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