A group of researchers has found a serious security vulnerability in Apple’s M-series of chips that would allow attackers to steal secret keys from Mac and iPad devices. The problem affects Apple M1, M2 and M3 chips — which have been used in Apple desktops, notebooks and tablets since late
    • Car@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Cool stuff. Sucks that the prefetching process cannot be disabled on cryptographic operations with the M1 and M2 Macs.

      I purchased an M1 and I don’t feel any appreciable slowdowns or need to upgrade to a newer computer. This kind of vulnerability skews that decision, and I’m not especially happy about it.