PC chip technology cracked: fast chips with little security

Today’s PCs are flawed, thanks to microprocessor manufacturing which optimizes chips for speed, not security. “Security has been sacrificed for the benefit of performance,” German crypto expert Jean-Pierre Seifert alleges.
Researchers discover security flaw in microchips

more: On the Power of Simple Branch Prediction Analysis MD5, SHA1, and now RSA, (hmm: this news may help push prices down on current PCs. I’d still buy one.),

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