AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs through a BIOS update in July — TSME is coming back after 'valuable community feedback'
The feature was quietly removed through a firmware update on some non-PRO Ryzen CPUs.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-will-reinstate-memory-encryption-on-ryzen-9000-cpus-through-a-bios-update-in-july-tsme-is-coming-back-after-valuable-community-feedbackOpen linkView original on lemmy.zip102
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Removing features from firmware is a real dick move.
Luckily that guy noticed soon enough
Yea, but what about next time?
It should be illegal to cripple the things that we buy after the fact. In any way.
From what I read this is somewhat a gray area - AMD never stated that non pro CPUs support it, even though they do and they should. Anyway, it was a dick move.
If you don't want people to have it, ship without it, though.
Yeah, who knows the reason behind it. Perhaps using same design to lower costs and then they didn't disable it or something.
And that shouldn't be allowed.
if that was a hard law, many of the various execution prediction exploit prevention fixes couldn't have happened, as those fixes technically cripple performance...
I think there is a meaningful difference in this case.
It's an ATTACK VECTOR.
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