Post #3612693
2026-07-05 20:28 UTC
@CppGuy@infosec.space it’s good news and bad news. The good news: CISC architecture CPUs run their own firmware/microcode to implement a lot of that complexity, and some vulnerabilities can be patched. The bad news: RISC architectures tend not to, thus any chip-level vulnerabilities need a hardware fix.
As an engineer, I tend to the view that the more complex a system or component is, the more failure modes it’s got. Give me RISC any day. To be even more specific, give me ARM 😎
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@CppGuy@infosec.space 2026-07-05 21:07
@andrew_meir@mastodon.social Oh, #complexity is one of the perennial tussles between Engineering and Marketing: we always want to simplify, and they want the opposite.