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what's up everyone Jays two cents here in a brainy a talking head video to give you sort of a breaking news like a dudududududu dude there's some big news that is hit this week we're gonna talk about that so feel free to minimize this video and just listen if you're busy and doing other things there's no point in looking at me I'm not doing any editing I'm not even putting any music in this entails got some problems right now because of a kernel leak happening on a hardware level in their x86 CPUs x86 and 64 CPUs so yeah you're gonna want to listen to this one I'm not gonna dive too deep down the rabbit hole of what the problem is trying to talk technical jargon and stuff about things that I truly honestly I'm not a CPU architect I don't know how it works I don't care how it works because between you and me the what the problem is actually doing is less important to me than what the fix is what's the effect of the fix going to be and what is at stake right now and that's what most people should be concerned with when it comes to the problem on a high level what's happening here is I'm gonna put some article links down below please read them check them out they're written articles but they they're some of the sources I use for just kind of figuring out what's going on with all of this so they're worth a read please check them out but what's happening is we've actually got three different problems three not just one meltdown is the one that's kind of hitting the the mainstream media hard because it affects Intel x86 64 processors which as you guys know Intel still has the huge majority market share which means they kind of shoulder the burden of most of this problem and the way it's affecting people but there's three problems out there between all three of them all manufacturers of CPUs and micro processors are affected Intel AMD and arm even the problem is Intel's more affected by this on their hardware level bug because AMD and arm are affected more on a software level and the kernel bug that were about to talk about with Intel you have to have physical access to the machine on AMD CPUs to have the exploit available to you whereas Intel's memory leak in the way that the memory leak with the kernel is happening versus AMD if you have an AMD processor you're pretty much unaffected by this even though the problem does actually still sort of exist for you as well now the kernel and I don't mean Kentucky Fried Chicken kernel although some pretty good right about now the kernel is kind of sitting in between the processor in the OS it's very basic way of describing it basically but as it holds very sensitive data encryption levels and things that happened but unfortunately the memory leak that's happening right now with the kernel is very accessible and it's not encrypted which means things like passwords and sensitive data access point to your computer and from your computer it's it's basically a backdoor that anyone can get into that machine and do anything they want they can delete data they can add data that can run programs run malicious software if you thought the ransomware was that was a was a bad thing that only affected certain people with what certain uh you know patches that weren't that in place this affects everybody pretty much everybody but like I said whether it comes to arm and AMD they're they're easily more patched and named yet to have physical access to the machine but the way Indies architecture also is built with the kernel it's very different on the way that that memory is accessed or that kernel is accessed and I'm glad I waited to do this video to today instead of yesterday because there was some late night developments with Intel and they finally addressed that yes this is real VSS is a problem yes were we are working with the software vendors to fix this and my software vendors I mean your operating system so if you're on Windows of course Linux and even Mac OS you are affected by this unfortunately this is one of those times where you can't be like well I'm on Mac I'm impervious to these types of things no you're you're affected by this as well because you're running Intel CPUs but Intel did in fact come forth and say yes this is a problem and we're working to fix this it's really up to the software vendors to patch this because this is happening now with on an OS level and understand more about this problem you have to understand how they even arise is a lot of companies and even independent researchers without even being asked will go and hack websites they'll hack software they're hack hardware and then what they do is they present the data these are good hackers it sounds weird right these are good hackers who will present the data to the firms so that they can be fixed and patched and stuff usually for a nominal fee I mean they make a lot of money doing this security stuff and then there are firms that are hired to continually try to hack and break in backdoor whatever and we use that when I worked in software we had a firm that was constantly this their whole job was to just constantly test our stuff find the exploits and let us fix them so that was exactly what happened here a firm found this exploit which attests as far back as ten-year-old processors and found that this exploit was present so this is not new this has been going on for over a decade now when it comes to the problem it's actually started to be fixed by some of the software vendors as recently as December in fact the beginning of December Mac OS update went out that had a fix in it for that so as you can see by the time we hear about it it's been long going on and the reason for that is because you don't want to tip off the hackers because you want to try and fix this before it makes mainstream that way the hackers will have an opportunity to exploit this so that's why Allah this is kept hush-hush not because they're trying to oh my god protect market share shareholders interest of course that does indeed play a part of this because AMD's stock has soared since it came out that Intel CPUs are the ones that are being hit heavy by this just go look at the stock market for yourself and you'll see that AMD stocks have soared especially since Tomlin dakki at AMD who's an engineer for them came out and said look we are not accessing our kit our kernel the same way attack they have a they have something built in that handles things very differently it's called and I gotta use my notes here cuz I don't wanna get this wrong it's called their kernel page table isolation feature it protects against these types of things so AMD actually has something in place that sort of gave them a little bit of added security towards this although they are still affected a little bit like I mentioned on the software side of things you have to have physical access to the Box even have a chance of hacking the AMD kernel so that's crazy how 2018 has started off but here's the here's the part that really truly affects us is when this is fixed it's going to be respect we're going to talk about Intel and Microsoft here because this that's the majority right the all the distros and stuff on Linux and the way the Linux kernel is handled that's already been worked on as well and it's being worked on and patches are rolling out for that but of course we are at the mercy of Microsoft and what they do with this and they're gonna be kind of rewriting and putting out a I believe the update is supposed to be January 9th on this this new update and in fact the updates that way you guys can check and see if you have it because unfortunately now to truly fix this you're gonna have to have updates turned on there's gonna be update KB four zero five four zero - - that is the update that is supposed to fix this but here's the problem because of the way the kernel is being accessed and kind of rewritten with the OS to try and band-aid this this is the band-aid fix there's no other way to put it this is a band-aid fix because there is a hardware level problem here so until Intel fix this on new CPUs our old CPUs are still going to be using software band-aid fixes which unfortunately can probably be broken and hacked as well so you know people are going to be attacking the fix the fix is where you find the code for the problem and that's what they're going to attack unfortunately so just wait for that the fix could slow down your Intel CPU by as little as 5% or as much as 30% depending on your age your processor and the workload on it now processors with PCI D are going to be a little bit less infected and those are processors that are Haswell fourth gen and newer the higher end the CPU and the stronger it is probably the less impact it will be performance wise but it will have an impact no matter what these slower more baseline entry-level CPUs are probably going to see a much higher hit and then of course those without PCI D or older that has well fourth gen are going to proceed probably a significant hit because PCI D is supposed to be what's kind of mitigating a lot of this performance loss so the question is how much is it going to affect you an impact you have no idea we don't know until the patch rolls out worldwide and gets out to its users and I'm sure you're gonna see people saying it's probably gone as higher than 30 percent you might see people saying I don't even notice a difference Intel is pretty convinced that average everyday piece consumers like an home PCs are not going to notice really much of a difference at all it's those that are running data centers and cloud farms and and data farms and all that sort of stuff that are gonna notice more of an impact because those CPUs are being leveraged to their max capacity anyway so once you're already at max capacity at your current workload and your current capability and it slows down that's where you going to notice it great because it comes off the top if you're not using all that performance Headroom and it comes down up here but you're still here you're not gonna notice it that much so that's the way that kind of works so in terms of gaming because I know a lot of you guys are like what about my games if you read some of the articles down below you'll see that gaming was mentioned the problem is the game titles that were used were not DirectX titles they were they were other api's and so problem is DirectX being a Microsoft API and the way it's gonna access the operating system with the new kernel access software update could potentially see a negative impact who knows what that's going to be there's too many Hardware permeations and variations out there for me to even begin to say whether or not you're gonna see any sort of a slowdown I don't know if I'm gonna test this quite honestly I don't even know what kind of testing methodology or redundancy testing or regression testing I can even possibly do to try and give you guys an answer on whether or not you'd be affected but maybe we'll play around that a little bit but five to thirty percent slowdown you imagine overnight with an update comes through and your CPU is 30% slower because of a hardware level bug that's existed for over a decade on Intel CPUs this is not the way we needed to start 2018 this is not right kind of man I feel bad for the Intel folks going to CES next week this whole problem came out right before CES I don't think I'd want to go anywhere near those Intel boosts I as a rep I wouldn't wanna go anywhere near Intel I'd probably just be like I'm done I'm out I quit it'd be like a jet PI trying to go to CES which he's not going to by the way - you wonder why anyway so guys that's that that's very high level like I said I highly recommend doing some reading you'll find the links down below all we can do is wait and there is nothing we can do other than turn on updates now in Microsoft we have no choice unless you want to leave yourself exposed I mean if you want to be a CPU flasher leave yourself exposed that's on you I mean it really is but I mean the only way to really fix this now is hope that the hope that the CPU manufacturers and the OS vendors are talking to try and fix this as best they can but I don't think this is going anywhere I think I think now that this is hit mainstream and the hackers now know where to look and when the when the patch rolls out the patch is gonna obviously point hackers in the right direction on where to kind of zero in on where the problem is and start to reverse engineer that patch to try and access things I'm telling you right now man hackers it's it's incredibly it's it's impressive how smart they are but man is a sucker when it's used for malicious purposes anyway sound off in the comments down below guys and really curious as to what your thoughts on this are you guys wanted mine here it is don't know what else to say alright guys thanks for watching and we'll see we'll see you next week but we got a video or two coming up before that hopefully anyway see you guys then