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burnt-resistortoday at 4:41 AM0 repliesview on HN

Thanks for this, author.

No https:// and no cryptographic signature nor checksum that I can see. This makes it almost trivial for any nation-state to inject malware into targeted machines.

I removed AMD auto-update functionality from Windows boxen. (And I won't install anything similar on Linux.) And, besides, the Windows auto-update or check process hangs with a blank console window regularly.

Such trashy software ruins the OOBE of everything else. Small details attention zen philosophy and all that.