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AMD Has No Plans To Release PSP Code (twitch.tv)
AMD has faced calls from Edward Snowden, Libreboot and the Reddit community to release the source code to the AMD Secure Processor (PSP), a network-capable co-processor which some believe has the capacity to act as a backdoor. But despite some signs earlier that it might consider opening the PSP code at some point, the chip-maker has now confirmed that there hasn't been a change of heart yet. "We have no plans on releasing it to the public," the company executives said in a tech talk (video).
You are kidding right? The base band chip in mobile phones would make intel and amd look like amateurs with what samsung and qualcomm can do.
Seems odd that anybody would go down the route of obscurity, given the recent exposure of Intel AMT, and the problems it is causing.
it would seem to be required to allow the DRM “features” to work as intended
Odd to "protect" the use of DRM, given the track record of successful hacks against DRM. Even worse to compromise the security of the entire system for its sake.
I see nothing that could possibly go wrong...
-- Sometimes you have to turn the lights off in order to see.
What chip manufacturer is trustworthy?
4. There is zero commercial advantage in releasing the source.
I'm not so sure about that. I think with proper marketing AMD could turn it into a major commercial advantage. Imagine the ad campaign...
AMD chips don't spy on you, and we can prove it.
Intel is hiding behind lawyers and refusing to come clean.
Which one do you want inside your computer?
(Unfortunately, "proper marketing" and "AMD" are rarely used in the same sentence.)
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