On 25/01/2017, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
If you have a machine with microcode updates, you should load the updates. I have never understood the objections to microcode blobs. If you accept the microcode that's on the machine already, then objecting to the microcode blob is creating a distinction without a difference.
That reasoning ignores the case where the user might consider the manufacturer(s) to have been (relatively) trustworthy at the time the machine and it's components were manufactured, but to have subsequently become less trustworthy.
In such a case, the user would be right to avoid the microcode updates.
Hypothetical example: I buy a machine with built-in microcode from the young Anakin Skywalker. A decade later, Darth Vader releases a microcode update. Should I apply it?
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Sam Kuper