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		speleo_engr on Jan 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch ... The RAD750 PPC (radiation hardened variant) is also used in a ton of satellites. It was state of the art until about a year ago for space.

r00fus on Jan 6, 2018 [–]

I wonder (my evil devil's advocate) if there are satellites or other hard-to-patch vital facilities that could be compromised with either of these vulnerabilities.

I know they made space-hardened x86 chips too.

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