Re: Microcode update conundrum (was Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update)

2013-09-08 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 08:00:12AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: (1) This requires enabling two repositories that I have been avoiding enabling, contrib and non-free. That means I have to watch the repository more carefully when using apt-cache search or synaptic to look for new tools,

Re: Microcode update conundrum (was Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update)

2013-09-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 08 Sep 2013, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: or synaptic to look for new tools, right? Or can we just enable those two repositories long enough to load Henrique's tool and the microcode updates, then disable them again? Why do you feel that you even need to ask? You are free to handle the

Re: Microcode update conundrum (was Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update)

2013-09-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 08 Sep 2013, Joel Rees wrote: I was hoping that AMD was not going to have the license and non-visibility issue that plagues the Intel processor microcode updates. But I find this original announcement from when Henrique made the updater tool available:

Re: Microcode update conundrum (was Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update)

2013-09-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 9/09/2013 2:18 AM, Volker Birk wrote: On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 12:55:05PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Note that even the internal errata/fix information is bound to be really uninteresting anyway. Backdoors would not be documented anywhere, heck, it is very likely that only

Re: Microcode update conundrum (was Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update)

2013-09-08 Thread Joel Rees
(Thanks for obliging, Henrik. ;-) On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Henrik Ahlgren pa...@seestieto.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 08:00:12AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: (1) This requires enabling two repositories that I have been avoiding enabling, contrib and non-free. That means I have to

Re: Microcode update conundrum (was Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update)

2013-09-08 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, 08 Sep 2013, Joel Rees wrote: I was hoping that AMD was not going to have the license and non-visibility issue that plagues the Intel processor microcode updates. But I find this original announcement

Microcode update conundrum (was Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update)

2013-09-07 Thread Joel Rees
(I kind of hope this starts a flame war large enough to embarrass the corporate culprits into behaving themselves about this. Apologies in advance when I step on toes.) I was hoping that AMD was not going to have the license and non-visibility issue that plagues the Intel processor microcode