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Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades (www.engadget.com)
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[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

Which, again, is an incredibly unlikely attack vector unless you have some government secrets on your computer. And chances are that any attack through the IME or PSP is trying to do an implant into the UEFI/BIOS and not the processor itself.